长沙共产主义小组是中国共产党成立前的八个发起组之一,毛泽东是这个小组的发起人,何叔衡、彭璜、贺民范、萧铮等是小组的成员。何、彭逝世较早,没有留下有关小组的材料,又限于当时历史条件,小组没有留下原始文献,因而党史界对于长沙共产主义小组产生了疑问。有说“一大”前,毛泽东为筹建党的组织进行了一系列活动,但“没有来得及建立共产主义组织”;有的说“新民学会实际上起着党的领导核心作用”,“成了党的前身”;有的说毛泽东建立的是社会主义青年团,不是共产主义小组,毛泽东出席“一大”是社会主义青年团的代表,不是长沙共产主义小组的代表;等等。这些说法近两年虽 Changsha Communism Group is one of the eight initiating groups before the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Zedong is the initiator of this group. He Shuheng, Peng Huang, He Min Fan and Xiao Zheng are all members of the group. He and Peng died earlier, did not leave the material of the group, but also limited to the historical conditions at that time, the group did not leave the original literature, so the history of the party questioned the Changsha communist group. Before saying “a big one,” Mao Zedong organized a series of activities for the founding of the party, but “did not have time to establish a communist organization.” Some said that “Xinmin learned actually plays a leading role in the party’s leadership.” “It has become Some said that Mao Zedong established the Socialist Youth League, not a communist group. Mao Zedong attended the ”one big" as the representative of the Socialist Youth League and not the representative of the Changsha communist group; and so on. Although these statements are two years