Fifty Years of Russian Revolution: The Chinese View

Abstract

[In the last two issues we published extracts from the Soviet press giving the Soviet assessment of the Cultural Revolution in China. We now publish extracts from two recent Chinese documents — one, a speech by Lin Piao at a mass rally held in the Great Hall of the People, Peking, on November 6, and two, a joint article by the editorial boards ofPeople's Daily, Red Flag andLiberation Army Daily, both in commemoration of the October Revolution — which give the Chinese assessment of 50 years of the Russian Revolution. Without staging a rival international commu nist gathering in Peking, the Chinese used the occasion to make it quite clear that they regard the present Soviet leaders as "renegades and scabs" who had betrayed the "great October Socialist Revolution", and regard themselves, together with the Albanicans, as the true successors to that Revolution. They also assert that the centre of the world revolution has in fact shifted from Moscow to Peking, and that Mao Tse-tung is its true leader, Ed.]