Tibetan Communist Party
Tibetan Communist Party | |
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| Leader | Phuntsok Wangyal |
| Founders |
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| Founded | 1943 |
| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Merged into | Chinese Communist Party |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Tibetan Communist Party | |||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | བོད་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང | ||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 西藏共產黨 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 西藏共产党 | ||||||
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The Tibetan Communist Party[a] was a small communist party in 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 Tibetan Democratic Youth League, formed by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Lhasa in 1939.[1][2]
The party sought to establish an independent and socialist Tibet encompassing the three traditional regions of Tibet: Ü-Tsang, Kham, and Amdo.[1][3] The party contacted the Soviet embassy in Beijing and asked for the Soviets' assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet. Wangyal later contacted the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of India.[4]
The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against the ruling Kuomintang while promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.
In 1949, the party merged into the Chinese Communist Party.[5]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b 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 (September 2006). A Tibetan Revolutionary. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24992-9. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
