Page "Communist Party of China" Paragraph 68

The CPC has its origins in the May Fourth Movement of 1919, where radical political systems like anarchism and communism gained traction among Chinese intellectuals.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang because he wanted to expand Soviet influence in the province.

The CPC's ideologies have significantly evolved since its founding and establishing political power in 1949.

Mao Zedong's revolution that founded the PRC was nominally based on Marxism-Leninism with a rural focus based on China's social situations at the time.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the CPC experienced a significant ideological breakdown with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev, and later, Leonid Brezhnev.

Since then Mao's peasant revolutionary vision and so-called " continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat " stipulated that class enemies continued to exist even though the socialist revolution seemed to be complete, giving way to the Cultural Revolution.

This fusion of ideas became known officially as " Mao Zedong Thought ", or Maoism outside of China.

It represented a powerful branch of communism that existed in opposition to the Soviet Union's " Marxist revisionism ".