Deng strengthens his authority "We do not wish to hide our errors and defects," declared the latest issue of Red Flag, the theoretical journal of China's Communist Party. "If the party's style of work is not rectified, the people's belief in the superiority of socialism and the final victory of Communism will be shaken."
After a year of preparations, the party had embarked on what was officially called an "overall rectification of party style and consolidation of party organizations." In everything but name, however, it will be a purge, an attempt by...
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