The Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ( mn, Дотоод Монголын Ардын Хувьсгалын Нам, Dotoγadu Mongγol-un Arad-un Qubisqal-un Nam; ) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

. The party was founded by a number of politically active Inner Mongolian youth including Mersé and

Serengdongrub Serengdongrub (17 February 1894 – 2 August 1980), courtesy name Chü Ch'uan () and also known under the Chinese name of Pai Yün-t'i (), was an Inner Mongolian politician in the Republic of China. An ethnic Mongol, he was a native of Harqin ...

Kalgan Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southw ...

in October 1925 in

Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southw ...

. Mersé, who had contacts with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and

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, became the general secretary of the party. Others present at their inaugural meeting included

Altanochir Altanochir (1887 – ?), also known under the Chinese name of Jin Yongchang, was an Inner Mongolian politician under the Republic of China and the Mengjiang government. Career When Altanochir was in his youth, he was one of a small number ...

, Fumintai, and Sainbayar. The party advocated Mongolian

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and

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, abolishment of

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and of the influence of the religious hierarchy. The party was allied to the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

. It was dissolved in 1946.Pan, Yihong. ''Tempered in the revolutionary furnace: China's youth in the rustication movement''. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. p. 131.

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Comintern sections The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by ...

Communist parties in China History of Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolian independence movement Political parties in the Republic of China Political parties established in 1925 Political parties disestablished in 1946 Formerly ruling communist parties Organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party History of Zhangjiakou