Komunistyczna Partia Birmy: od niezależności do samozniszczenia. Regionalne studium przypadku komunizmu azjatyckiego
Burma (Myanmar), Communist Party of Burma (CPB), Than Tun, thakin Soe, Ba Thein Tin, Communism in Asia

Summary/Abstract: Communist Party of Burma (CPB) represents an interesting case studies in the international communist movement. It is interesting by its independence: CPB grew from local, Burmese tradition of nationalism and for many years, if not decades, had little contact with external communist parties (mostly with Communist Party of India and, later, Communist Party of China). Hence, it remained independent from both Moscow and Beijing (later, in 1960s it leant towards the latter). A few times close to getting to power, CPB never achieved that goal, even though it controlled large area of Sino-Burmese borderland in 1970s and 1980s. Until its demise in 1989 it remained the second political force in Burma and Rangoon’s biggest opponent. Initially independent and nationalistic, later it embraced Maoism which contributed to CPB’s failure: first in central Burma in early 1970s and later in the borderlands in 1989.

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