Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Explained

Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Position:Far-left
Merged:Chinese Communist Party
Native Name:
Country:China
Colorcode:blue
Leader:Mersé
Serengdongrub
Headquarters:Kalgan

The Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (Mongolian: Дотоод Монголын Ардын Хувьсгалын Нам|Dotoγadu Mongγol-un Arad-un Qubisqal-un Nam;[1]) was a political party in Inner Mongolia. The party was founded by a number of politically active Inner Mongolian youth including Mersé and Serengdongrub in Kalgan in October 1925 in Zhangjiakou.[2] Mersé, who had contacts with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and Comintern, became the general secretary of the party.[3] Others present at their inaugural meeting included Altanochir, Fumintai, and Sainbayar.[4]

The party advocated Mongolian self-determination and socialism, abolishment of feudalism and of the influence of the religious hierarchy.[5]

The party was allied to the Chinese Communist Party. It was dissolved in 1946.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Li, Narangoa/Cribb, Robert. Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895–1945. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. p. 98.
  2. Cotton, James. Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. p. 19.
  3. Li, Narangoa/Cribb, Robert. Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895–1945. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. p. 97.
  4. Rupen, Robert Arthur. Mongols of the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1964. p. 169. .
  5. Oinas, Felix J.. Studies in Finnic folklore: Homage to the Kalevala. Helsinki: Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, 1985. pp. 76–77.
  6. Pan, Yihong. Tempered in the revolutionary furnace: China's youth in the rustication movement. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. p. 131.