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the “Left” error of putschism, which lasted from November 1927 to April 1928. At the
Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, held in January 1931, he was attacked
by the exponents of Wang Ming’s “Left” dogmatism and pushed out of the central leading
body (for Wang Ming, see note 89). In 1934 he arrived in the Central Revolutionary Base
Area in Jiangxi Province and was made Commissioner of People’s Education (Minister of
Education) in the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China. When
the main force of the Red Army began the Long March, he stayed in the South to carry on
guerrilla warfare. In February 1935 he was arrested by the Kuomintang, and the following
June he was executed. p. 300
113 Li Lisan (1899-1967), a native of Liling, Hunan Province, was one of the chief
leaders of the workers’ movement in China. In 1921 he joined the CPC. From the winter of
1928 to the autumn of 1930 he worked for the Central Committee in Shanghai, holding such
important posts as member and Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the Central Committee and director of the Propaganda Department. From June to
September 1930 he made “Left” adventurist errors. Later, he came to see his mistakes and
corrected them. At the Party’s Seventh and Eighth National Congresses (1945 and 1956) he
was re-elected to the Central Committee. p. 300
114 Ren Bishi (1904-1950), a native of Tangjiaqiao (present-day Miluo City), Xiangyin
County, Hunan Province, joined the CPC in 1922. At the August 7 Meeting of 1927 he was
elected to the Provisional Political Bureau of the Central Committee. At the Fourth Plenary
Session of the Sixth Central Committee, held in 1931, he was elected to the Political Bureau.
He held such posts as secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Hunan-Jiangxi
Border Area and political commissar of the Hunan-Jiangxi Military Command, chairman of
the Military and Administrative Council of the Sixth Army Group of the Red Army, political
commissar of the Second Front Army of the Red Army and director of the General Political
Department of the Eighth Route Army. In 1940 he began to serve in the Secretariat of the
Central Committee. At the First Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, held in
1945, he was elected a member of the Political Bureau and of the Secretariat. He died of
illness in Beijing on October 27, 1950. p. 300
115 Lin Biao (1907-1971), a native of Huanggang County, Hubei Province, joined the
CPC in 1925. At the Fifth Plenary Session of the Party’s Eighth Central Committee, held in
May 1958, he was elected vice-chairman of the Central Committee and a member of the
Standing Committee of the Political Bureau. In 1959 he was made Minister of Defence and
took charge of the work of the Central Military Commission. During the “cultural revolu-
tion” he organized a conspiratorial clique in an attempt to usurp Party and state power and
plotted a counter-revolutionary coup. When his plot was exposed, he fled the country in the
small hours of September 13, 1971, but died when his plane crashed in Ondorhan, Mongolia.
In August 1973 the Central Committee of the CPC decided to expel him from the Party
posthumously. p. 300
116 See “We Must Form a Promising Collective Leadership That Will Carry Out
Reform”, pp. 288-293 of this volume. p. 301
117 The Thirteenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party [October
25-November 1, 1987] had agreed to Deng Xiaoping’s resigning his posts as member of the
Central Committee, its Political Bureau, and the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau
and as member and Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission. However, he retained
the posts of Chairman of the State Military Commission and Chairman of the Central
Military Commission of the Party. p. 305
118 The Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee was held in Beijing
on June 23 and 24, 1989. At this session the Central Committee analysed the national political
situation in May and June and stated that a handful of people, making use of the student
movement, had planned and organized in a few cities political turmoil, which in Beijing had