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THE ORIGINS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE COMINTERN
This thesis concludes that the establishment of the CCP was not, as official ideologists claim, the outcome of the combination of the dissemination of Marxism-Leninism and the labour movement in China, but actually the result of political direction and financial support by the Bolsheviks.