Xinhua recently published a review of the new book, Preparing for Danger in Times of Safety, 20 Years after the Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, written by Li Shengming, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the book, the author summarized the five reasons for the Soviet Union’s collapse: 1) Negating the Party’s leaders and the Party’s history; 2) Betraying Marxism and Leninism and losing the correct theoretical guidance; 3) Corrupt personal conduct of the Party members, who cut themselves off from the masses; 4) Appointing Party cadres in serious violation of Marxism and Leninism; 5) Serious betrayal of the Marxist principle of Party development and changing the Party’s color.
Source: Xinhua, March 24, 2011
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