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PKI een miljoen leden

PKI has one million members: Aidit interview with Ogonyok

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De Waarheid, 23 Mar 1956, p. 2: Moscow dispatch that the PKI has one million members, per Aidit in an interview with the Soviet magazine Ogonyok; SOBSI has 2.6 million, the peasant union BTI 2.5 million, Pemuda Rakjat 700,000 and Gerwani about 500,000. Useful as a contemporary membership figure for Gerwani.

De Waarheid, 23 Mar 1956, hlm. 2: kabar Moskow bahwa PKI memiliki satu juta anggota menurut Aidit dalam wawancara dengan majalah Soviet Ogonyok; SOBSI 2,6 juta, BTI 2,5 juta, Pemuda Rakjat 700.000, dan Gerwani sekitar 500.000. Berguna sebagai angka keanggotaan Gerwani pada masa itu.

“Relevance raised from C: gives a membership figure for Gerwani.”

People

D.N. Aidit

Organisations

Communist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)All-Indonesia Central Labour OrganisationIndonesian Peasants' FrontPeople's YouthOgonyok

Places

MoscowIndonesia

Topics

PKIGerwani organisationUSSR and Eastern Europepeasant womenlabour and workers

Tags

membership figuresinterview

Details

Date
1956-03-23
Creator
De Waarheid
Publication
De Waarheid
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1955–1959
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/De Waarheid (1956-03-23) - PKI EEN MILJOEN LEDEN [Delpher ddd-010369680-a0064].txt
OCR / text
Good (0.899) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
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