Tibetan Communist Party
Tibetan Communist Party | |
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| Tibetan name | བོད་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང |
| Chinese name | 西藏共產黨 |
| Leader | Phuntsok Wangyal |
| Founders | Phuntsok Wangyal Ngawang Kesang |
| Founded | 1943 |
| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Merged into | Communist Party of China |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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The Tibetan Communist Party[a] was a small communist party in the Tibet, which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in 1943. It emerged from a group called the , created by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Lhasa in 1939.[1][2]
The party sought to unite all Tibetans into one entity, compassing Kham, Amdo, and Ü-Tsang.[3] The party contacted the embassy of the Soviet Union asking for its assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet and Kham. Later Wangyal also contacted the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of India.[4]
The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against the ruling Kuomintang, whilst promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.
In 1949, the party merged into the Communist Party of China.[5]
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References[]
- ^ New Left Review - Tsering Shakya: The Prisoner
- ^ "Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder". 2 July 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
- ^ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. University of California Press, 2004. p. xiii
- ^ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. p. 42-44, 78-82
- ^ Melvyn C. Goldstein; Dawei Sherap; William R. Siebenschuh. "A Tibetan Revolutionary". Retrieved 21 June 2008.
- Communist parties in China
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