Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party | |
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| Abbreviation | TPRP (English) ТАХN (Tuvan) TNRP (Russian) |
| General Secretary | Salchak Toka |
| Governing body | Central Committee |
| Founded | 29 October 1921 (1921-10-29) |
| Dissolved | 11 October 1944 (1944-10-11) |
| Merged into | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
| Succeeded by | Tuvan Regional Committee of theVKP(b) |
| Headquarters | Kyzyl,Tuvan People's Republic |
| Newspaper | Tuvinskaya Pravd Pod znamenem Lenina–Stalina |
| Youth wing | Tuvan Revolutionary Union of Youth |
| Armed wing | Tuvan People's Revolutionary Army (1924–1944) |
| Membership(1944) | 6,807 |
| Ideology | Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation | Communist International |
| Slogan | БYГY ЧURT TАРHЫH ПPOЛETAPЫH TАРHЙЛEPИ KATTЫЖЫHAP! |
| Anthem | "The Internationale" |
| Party flag | |
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| Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party | |
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| Mongolian name | |
| Mongolian script | ᠲᠠᠩᠨᠦ ᠲᠤᠧᠠ ᠢᠢᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠰᠭᠠᠯ ᠳᠤ ᠨᠠᠮ |
| Tuvan name | |
| Tuvan | Тьва arat-хuviskaalçь nam |
TheTuvan People's Revolutionary Party[a] was apolitical party inTuva, founded in 1921. When theTuvan People's Republic was founded in the same year, the party heldsingle-party control over itsgovernment as avanguard party.
UnderSoviet sponsorship, a conference of Tuvan revolutionaries convened on 29 October 1921, and an organization bureau was formed. The first Congress met on 28 February 1922, when the Tuvan "People's Government" was established. However, as soon as the Second Congress convened on 6 July 1923, the former party was dissolved because of Soviet dissatisfaction, and a new one was organized. The Fourth Congress met in October 1925; the Seventh Congress, in 1928. The Central Committee was authorized to establish party cells and branches of the league of revolutionary youth throughout the country.[1]
During the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the party in 1929 the right-wing leadership, which had intended to retainTibetan Buddhism as a state religion in the old sense, in contradiction to the proclaimed constitution, was completely destroyed.[citation needed] Under the watchword of "antifeudal revolution," the Eighth Congress paved the way for “socialist reconstruction” throughcollectivisation. When, in April–May 1930, the so-called "counterrevolution of the Tuvan nobles and the Russiankulak-colonists" broke out with the intent "to overthrow the 'Revolutionary Government,'" it was also put down by force. Resolutions were adopted in the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party to confiscate the property of the “exploiter class”, to conduct agricultural collectivization "on an unconditionally voluntary basis", "to struggle for complete independence from the imperialist countries and to co-operate closely with the oppressed peoples and the working class of the whole world."[2]
A prominent figure in the party’s initial stage wasDonduk Kuular. In 1929–1932 a political shift occurred, beginning with the1929 Tuvan coup d'état, as what Stalin saw as “nationalist” elements of the party, including Kuular, were purged. The leadership of the party was taken over bySalchak Toka.
The party was admitted to theComintern as a "sympathizing party" at itsSeventh Congress in 1935.[3]