The CPSU and the CPC: comparative aspects of the historical and cultural approach
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Abstract
The comparison of the ideas and activities of the CPC and the party that formally ended its activities in Russia under the name of the CPSU is relevant for analyzing the prospects of the socialist, communist way of development. At the same time, in our opinion, it is important to consider the cultural, historical, and cultural aspects of such a comparison. The methodology of the research is connected in this case precisely to the historical description of the main stages of development, the nature of the activities of the communist party in Russia and in China with the historical and culturological assessment of known facts. The conclusions of the article are related to the more European nature of the Russian mentality, more dynamically contrasting, difficult events in the history of Russia as a serious factor in the formation and work of the CPSU (in particular, this explains the factional movement, multiparty system as a condition for functioning, the rigidity of politics, etc.); at the same time, the desire of the Chinese for harmony, the philosophic nature of their thinking, greater traditionalism cause a smaller number of factions in the CPC, possibly "soft" cooperation with other parties (with a small number of the latter), etc. The flexibility of Chinese thinking in a very traditional country is surprising by the very fact of the "unexpected" and effective, in fact, replacing the government of the party movement at a certain historical moment. Even though in Russia, too, the "open" democratic process in the early XX century appeared as if "from scratch", it, being more European in mentality, had a considerable tradition of political thought of the European type.