Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Collective leadership in the Soviet Union" in English language version.
[...] the communique of the third plenary session of the eleventh central committee of the [Chinese Communist Party], adopted on 22 December 1978 [...] suggested that 'less publicity be given to any individual' and called for an assertion of collective leadership: 'Any practice that does not conform to the party's democratic centralism and the principle of collective leadership should be resolutely corrected.' [...] The association of democratic centralism with strictly enforced competences and with collective leadership recalls very similar associations made by Soviet theorists as regards the Soviet Union and the CPSU in the period after Stalin's death.