Frozen Years: A Record of Sino-Soviet Conflict

Author: Soviet Studies Editorial Group
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Does the October Revolution still work? Can it still serve as a model for other countries? Khrushchev's report at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union stated that power could be gained through parliamentary means, meaning that other countries no longer needed to learn from the revolution. With this door opened, Marxism-Leninism was basically abandoned. — Mao Zedong
For many years, there has been an issue regarding the understanding of Marxism and socialism. From the Moscow Meeting in 1957 to the mid-1960s, the Chinese and Soviet Communist parties engaged in fierce debates. I was one of the participants in that debate, playing a role that was far from insignificant. After more than twenty years of practice, looking back, both sides spoke a lot of empty words. More than a hundred years after Marx's death, what changes actually occurred, and how to understand and develop Marxism under these changing conditions, remained unclear. — Deng Xiaoping