Three Years of Communist Rule in China
In: The review of politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 3-33
ISSN: 1748-6858
On October 1, 1949, the Chinese Communist Party, having conquered the major portion of the Chinese mainland by the force of its "People's Army of Liberation," established, in the old imperial city of Peiping, a new regime called the "Central People's Government" of the "People's Republic of China." For more than three years, ninety-eight per cent of the Chinese people have lived under this Communist dictatorship represented as a "People's Democracy." Nor at the moment are there any visible signs that their condition may soon be altered. On the contrary, the Chinese Communists have proved themselves the adept disciples of their Russian mentors, capable of consolidating their rule with Soviet determination, thoroughness, and severity.