The United Marxist Leninist Party was in power for nine months in 1995, and is the largest party in the current ruling coalition.

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Taiwan's Leninist ruling party, in short, set out to change the society around it, but ended up being changed by it.

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By contrast, China drew the opposite political conclusion from the collapse of the Soviet Union: political reform in a Marxist-Leninist system imperils the party's survival.

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