East Turkestan Revolutionary Party
The East Turkestan Revolutionary Party (ETRP) was a clandestine communist party active from 1946 to 1947, in what is now Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Abdulkerim Abbas, a Uyghur revolutionary who served as the interior minister of the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR), led the party as chairman of a seven-member central executive committee.
East Turkestan Revolutionary Party | |
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| Chairman | Abdulkerim Abbas |
| Founded | 26 April 1946 |
| Dissolved | 3 February 1947 |
| Merged into | Democratic Revolutionary Party |
| Headquarters | Ghulja (Yining) |
| Youth wing | East Turkestan Revolutionary Youth League |
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| Political position | Far-left |
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The ETRP emerged from the more moderate East Turkestan Revolutionary Youth League (ETRYL), a group of young, progressive-minded intellectuals who opposed the conservative faction of the ETR government. Many party members came from the ETRYL, and the ETRYL later became the party's youth wing. Marxist–Leninist in its orientation, the ETRP's constitution, program, and organisational structure drew from those of the Soviet and Chinese communist parties.