ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF ASIA

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This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period focusing especially on the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It explains why the Communists created the myth that the Nanchang Uprising was a success and later dated the origins of the Peoples Liberation Army to this event.This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists the impact of the USSRs military and political advisers and the success of the Northern Expedition that resulted in the April 1927 purge of the Communists from the Nationalist Party. It explores the debates between leading communists in Moscow notably Stalin who thought that China was ready in 1927 for an urbanbased Communist revolution similar to what had happened in Russia ten years before and Trotsky who opposed it. It goes on examine the seizure of power in Nanchang by the Communists the establishment of Chinas first shortlived soviet republic and the reasons why the soviet soon collapsed. It explains the consequences of the rising including the adoption by the Communists of guerilla warfare the foundation of Chinas second soviet and after moving to northwest China during the 1930s the rise of Communist power throughout all of mainland China which culminated in the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949. The book stresses the importance of the mythology that evolved around the Nanchang Uprising: since criticism of the Nanchang Uprising would open themselves up to accusations that they were Trotskyites the Chinese Communists created the myth that the Nanchang Uprising was a success and later dated the origins of the Peoples Liberation Army to this event.Introduction 1. Origin of Soviet Factional Battles over the China Question 2. Chiang Kaisheks 1926 Political Coup and the Formation of the United Opposition 3. The Northern Expedition and the United Front 4. Rocky Shoals Ahead The Realignment of Forces in the United Front 5. Chiangs April 1927 Purge and the United Front 6. The United Oppositions Spring 1927 Campaign Against the Centrists 7. The Failure of the CCPLeft GMD Stage of the United Front Policy 8. The Final Stage is Set: Stalin Orders the Nanchang Uprising 9. The Nanchang Uprising and the CCPs False Line 10. The Canton Commune and Trotskys Expulsion from the Bolshevik Party 11. Bukharin and the Right Opposition 12. The 1929 SinoSoviet War and the Creation of the Stalinist State. Conclusion: China and the Victory of Socialism in One Country. BibliographyBruce A. Elleman is Associate Professor at the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College. He received a BA from UC Berkeley and the MA MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. His published research includes numerous articles on the USSRs

Data Publikacji: 2009-01-30
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 630 gr