East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party
| East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party | |||||||||
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| Foundation | 1968 or earlier | ||||||||
| Dissolved | 1969 | ||||||||
| Headquarters | Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||
| Active regions | Xinjiang, China | ||||||||
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| Size | 60,000 (self-claimed, unverified) | ||||||||
| Allies | Soviet Union | ||||||||
| Opponents | People's Republic of China | ||||||||
| Battles and wars | Xinjiang conflict | ||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur | شەرقىي تۈركىستان خەلق ئىنقىلاۋى پارتىيىسى | ||||||||
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| Russian name | |||||||||
| Russian | Народно-революционная партия Восточного Туркестана | ||||||||
| Romanization | Narodno-revolyutsionnaya partiya Vostochnogo Turkestana | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东突厥斯坦人民革命党 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東突厥斯坦人民革命黨 | ||||||||
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| People's Revolutionary Party | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 人民革命党 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 人民革命黨 | ||||||||
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The East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party (ETPRP) was a communist militant organization advocating East Turkestan independence (i.e. Xinjiang separatism). It was founded as the Uyghurstan People's Party amid the height of the Sino-Soviet split, in either 1967 or 1968. It was based in Soviet Kazakhstan and received covert support from the Soviet government. The group disappeared following the arrest or exile of most of its leaders in 1969 and a decline in Soviet support owing to a rekindling of Sino-Soviet relations.