ABSTRACT

Based mainly on Russian and Chinese archival sources that have become available only since the early 1990s, the authors of this collection explore the main aspects of the Chinese Revolution in the crucial period of the 1920s, such as the United Front policy, the development of communism, the Guomindang perspective, institutional issues and social movements. The various approaches and interpretative methods employed by the contributors from seven countries have resulted in a collection of articles representing four very different and until now almost independent discourses: the European, the American, the Chinese, and the Russian.

part I|74 pages

Part I United Front Policy

chapter 3|8 pages

The Comintern and the Guomindang

A clash of strategy in China's Revolution

chapter 4|14 pages

A “Bloc Within” or a “Bloc Without”?

Controversies on the CCP's attitude towards the Guomindang before and after 20 March 1926

part III|45 pages

Part III Institutional Issues

chapter 9|15 pages

The Chinese National Revolution and the Eighth ECCI Plenum

Exploring the role of the Chinese delegate “Chugunov”

chapter 12|7 pages

A Regular Chinese Voice from Berlin to Moscow

The China-information of Liao Huanxing, 1924–1927

part IV|122 pages

Part IV Social Movements

chapter 15|17 pages

Inscribing Gender Codes

Male-feminists in the early CCP

chapter 17|14 pages

Peasants, Peasant Uprisings and Agrarian Revolution, 1927–1931

An analysis of internal Comintern materials and contemporary reports

chapter 18|18 pages

Anti-Imperialism at Grassroots

Christianity and the Chinese Revolution in Northeast Guangdong, 1919–1930

part V|12 pages

Research Project