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Abstract
The Cultural Revolution radicals, the so-called Gang of Four, were overthrown in October 1976, but it was two years before the formal reassessment of the Chinese Communist Party's past commenced. During this time the political scene was monopolized by the struggle between the newly ascendant pragmatists, or moderates, whose cause was embodied in the person of Deng Xiaoping, and the retreating partisans of the ultra-leftist Gang of Four. Once this contest had been settled with sufficient clarity in favor of the former, the party turned to the necessary task of resolving a host of historical problems, some of which were related to its pre-1949 period, and some of which were of recent enough vintage still to be highly charged issues.

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