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A Nearly Perfect Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Eastern Turkistan People's Revolutionary Party

In the summer of 1969, China and the Soviet Union were at the brink of war. Amid escalating tensions, the Soviets lent support to a Uyghur separatist movement in Xinjiang. Bolstered by Soviet aid and the self-destructive politics of China’s Cultural Revolution, the Eastern Turkistan People’s Revolutionary Party posed a challenge to Chinese rule in Xinjiang that, had a Sino-Soviet peace not prevailed, might have led to the establishment of an independent, Soviet-aligned Eastern Turkistan.

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