ABSTRACT
In addition to provoking the grass roots explosion of peasant insurgency and labor rebellion, the Great Depression helped to stimulate the spread of communism to significant areas of the globe. By 1928, four years after the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin had outmaneuvered his rivals and assumed control of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. In 1919, Vladimir Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders had formed the Third International or Comintern, as it was called, to promote communist revolution worldwide. By the time Ho joined up with the Red Army in China in 1938, the Chinese communists had regrouped and, after years of being harried by Guomindang forces, even joined in a new alliance with their nationalist enemies in the face of Japanese invasion. In China, the conformation of gender drew in large part from the teachings of Confucius, formulated a millennium and half earlier but still resonating in the early part of the twentieth century.
