Comments on the Article “The Soviet Union Corrects Certain Biases in Its Struggle Against Cosmopolitanism”
(July 31, 1954)
This document [I] is worth reading. Comrade Shaoqi, please consider whether it should be forwarded to party committees at and above the prefectural level.
Mao Zedong
July 31st
[I]
Refers to the article “The Soviet Union Corrects Certain Biases in Its Struggle Against Cosmopolitanism,” compiled by the Research Office of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union (published in No. 17 of 1954 of “Propaganda and Education Dynamics,” edited and printed by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee). The article mainly describes how Soviet newspapers and periodicals had recently criticized certain departments on the ideological and cultural front for adopting an entirely negative attitude toward both historical heritage and contemporary foreign scientific and technological achievements. This error was first manifested in a wholesale rejection of philosophy predating the emergence of Marxism, and also in the refusal to accept foreign scientific and technological advances, as well as in the denial of spiritual exchanges and mutual influences among different nations. On August 5, 1954, the CPC Central Committee forwarded this material to localities.

Comments on the Article “The Soviet Union Corrects Certain Biases in Its Struggle Against Cosmopolitanism”
To be read by Comrades Chen Yun, Peng Zhen, Li Fuchun, Chen Boda, and Tian Jiaying [I], and then returned to Jiang Qing after being reviewed by Comrades Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu, Peng, and Dong (2).
[I]
Chen Yun was then a Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council. Peng Zhen was then an Alternate Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. Li Fuchun was then Deputy Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Commission of the Government Administration Council. Chen Boda was then Deputy Minister of the CPC Central Committee’s Propaganda Department. Tian Jiaying was then Mao Zedong’s secretary.
[2]
Deng Xiaoping was then Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council. Zhu refers to Zhu De. Peng refers to Peng Dehuai, who was then a member of the CPC Central Political Bureau and Vice Chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission. Dong refers to Dong Biwu, who was then a member of the CPC Central Political Bureau and Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council.