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20: 171:, who countered Khruschev's argument by pointing to the U-2 incident, the subsequent break-up of the Paris Peace Summit and called on the parties present not to trust imperialist forces. The Chinese delegation protested that the conference had not been properly announced on forehand, that the Soviets had ambushed them by changing an informal meeting into a conference by surprise. 90:(CPC), requesting an international meeting to resolve differences within the communist movement. The CPC agreed, but requested to get sufficient time to prepare themselves. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued a call on June 7, 1960, for a preliminary conference in Bucharest to 'exchange views' in the wake of the 166:
in his address to the Romanian party congress. On this occasion, Nikita Khrushchev stated the following: ”Comrade Peng Zhen yesterday we have drank for friendship, we drank for each other, you said you were for peaceful coexistence and then with the cognac glass you swallowed peaceful coexistence?
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The Albanian Party of Labour delegation was the sole Eastern European party not to rally being the Soviet position at the conference, albeit they didn't outright support the Chinese party line as such. The absence of Albanian leader
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The Struggle for Peace, Democracy, and Socialism: Documents of Meetings of Representatives of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, Held in Moscow in November 1957, in Bucharest in June 1960, and in Moscow in November
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The Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties was attended by parties from 51 countries. The conferences were attended by all the ruling parties of the socialist states in Europe (except the
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On June 24, 1960, a resolution of the conference was issued, with a language carefully worded to conceal the Sino-Soviet tensions. The resolution called for the holding of an
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Mihai Croitor (2013), La Bucureşti s-a scris: „Sciziune!" Consfătuirea partidelor comuniste şi muncitoreşti din iunie 1960, Editura Mega, p.27-65, ISBN 978-606-543-388-5
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Mihai Croitor (2013), La Bucureşti s-a scris: „Sciziune!" Consfătuirea partidelor comuniste şi muncitoreşti din iunie 1960, Editura Mega, p.146, ISBN 978-606-543-388-5
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member. Other delegation members included Sulejman Baholli, Central Committee member, and Thanas Nano, deputy director of the Agitprop department of the party.
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Mihai Croitor (2013), La Bucureşti s-a scris: „Sciziune!" Consfătuirea partidelor comuniste şi muncitoreşti din iunie 1960, Editura Mega, p.66-310
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The conference has been described as the first public display of conflict between the Soviet and Chinese communist parties, in the emerging
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However, at the conference the Soviet party distributed a circular, which argued that the CPC had violated the commitments of the
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Comrade Kapo, ask now comrade Peng Zhen, is he for peaceful coexistence or against?” The Chinese delegation was led by
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was noted, and interpreted as a decline in Soviet-Albanian relations. The Albanian delegation was led by
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on June 24–26, 1960. The conferences were held on the side-lines of the Third Congress of the
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Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962
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Bucharest Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties
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On June 2, 1960, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union wrote to the
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Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of the Socialist Countries
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but without taking any decisions. The CPC agreed to the invitation.
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Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left
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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany delegation was led by
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Communist Party of Romania congress, Bucharest, June 1960.
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The Workers Party of Vietnam, whose delegation was led by
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The Sino-Soviet Dispute: An Analysis of the Polemics
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Index


Gheorghiu-Dej
Khrushchev
Băneasa Airport
communist parties
Bucharest
Romania
Romanian Workers Party
Sino-Soviet split
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of China
U-2 incident
1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Albanian Party of Labour
Bulgarian Communist Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
Workers Party of Vietnam
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Workers' Party of Korea
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Polish United Workers Party
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Nikita Khrushchev
peaceful co-existence
Peng Zhen
Enver Hoxha
Mehmet Shehu
Hysni Kapo
politburo

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