The Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (; ) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area'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 regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

. 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 southwest ...

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 southwest ...

. 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, 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

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. 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, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was a political international which existed from 1919 to 1943 and advocated world communism. Emerging from the collapse of the Second Internationa ...

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 Organizations based in Inner Mongolia Nationalist parties in China Political parties of minorities in China