Summary: | The article examines the process of the formation of the system of public administration of
the PRC in the period after the adoption of the Constitution of the PRC in 1954 and ending with the
2nd session of the VIII Congress of the CPC, held in May 1958. The author analyzes the strategically
important factors that influenced this process, traces the emergence of features and characteristics, specific for the PRC public administration, explains the nature of the institution of party groups in the governing bodies of state structures. The study shows that the system of public administration was formed as a product of the struggle between two approaches to governing the country – creative, scientifically grounded and based on the knowledge and experience of the Soviet Union, and destructive, focused on strengthening the personal power regime of Mao Zedong by methods of ideological, moral and psychological influence and administrative pressure on the population and personnel.
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