A Nearly Perfect Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Eastern Turkistan People's Revolutionary Party
[Thesis]
Michael P. Evans
Bovingdon, Gardner
Indiana University
2017
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Committee members: Atwood, Christopher; Tuohy, Sue; Yasuda, John
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-17064-1
Ph.D.
Chinese
Indiana University
2017
In the summer of 1969, China and the Soviet Union teetered at the brink of war. Looking to exploit a perceived vulnerability, Soviets used the language of national liberation to encourage minority peoples along the Sino-Soviet border to collaborate in efforts to destabilize the Chinese frontier. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the so-called "Eastern Turkistan People's Revolutionary Party" heeded this call.
Asian History; Asian Studies
Social sciences;Cold War;Cultural Revolution;Xinjiang