The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927

by Alexander Pantsov

Overview

Based mainly on unknown Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this book analyses the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception in China. Issues include the role of the three Bolshevik leaders, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in trying to lead the Chinese Communists to victory, the real nature of the Trotsky-Stalin split in the Comintern, and a dramatic history of the Chinese Oppositionist movement in Soviet Russia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138964853
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/13/2016
Series:	Chinese Worlds
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Russian Communism and the Ideological Foundations of the Chinese Communist Movement; 1: Communism in Russia as a Socio-cultural Phenomeno; 2: The Theory of Permanent Revolution in China; II: Lenin and the National Revolution in China; 3: Lenin's Concept of the United Front; 4: New Course of the CCP: From Permanent Revolution to the Tactics of Collaboration; III: Stalin's Shift in the Comintern's China Policy; 5: The Birth of Stalinism; 6: The Genesis of Stalin's China Policy; IV: Trotsky's Views on China in Flux; 7: Trotsky and the Formation of the United Front in China; 8: The Rise of the Russian Left Opposition and the Chinese Question: In Search of a United Platform; V: Trotsky vs. Stalin: The China Factor in 1927; 9: The Stalinists and the Opposition at the Apex of the Chinese Revolution; 10: The Fall of the Opposition and the Evolution of Stalin's and Trotsky's Views on China; VI: The Stalin-Trotsky Split on China and the Chinese Communists; 11: Chinese Revolutionaries: From Moscow Students to Dissidents; 12: The Tragedy of the Chinese Trotskyists in Soviet Russia; Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

'Alexander Pantsov is one of the most able scholars to have taken advantage of these new research opportunities, by exploitng masses of previously inaccessible Russian archival sources.' - International Review of Social History

'Pantsov's book is thus at once exciting and reassuring.' - Alain Roux, China Perspectives

Alexander Pantsov is one of the most able scholars to have taken advantage of these new research opportunities, by exploitng masses of previously inaccessible Russian archival sources.' - International Review of Social History

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