ABSTRACT
In the Soviet Union, those who once extolled Stalin to the skies have now in one swoop consigned him to purgatory. Here in China some people are following their example. It is the opinion of the Central Committee that Stalin's mistakes amount to only 30 percent of the whole and his achievements to 70 percent and that, all things considered, Stalin was nonetheless a great Marxist. The authors wrote "On the Historical Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" on the basis of this evaluation. In authors' opinion, China has two weaknesses, which are at the same time two strong points. First, in the past China was a colonial and semicolonial country, not an imperialist power, and was always bullied by others. Second, our revolution came late. Although the 1911 Revolution which overthrew the Ch'ing emperor preceded the Russian revolution, there was no Communist Party at that time, and the revolution failed.
