Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925-30: The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army

ISBN-13: 9780415776141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 232 str.

Elleman Bruce; Bruce A. Elleman

Opis

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 USSR's 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 urban-based 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 China's first short-lived 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 China's 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 People's 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 People's Liberation Army to this event.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Origin of Soviet Factional Battles over the China Question  2. Chiang Kai-shek’s 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. Chiang’s April 1927 Purge and the United Front  6. The United Opposition’s Spring 1927 Campaign Against the Centrists  7. The Failure of the CCP-Left GMD Stage of the United Front Policy  8. The Final Stage is Set: Stalin Orders the Nanchang Uprising  9. The Nanchang Uprising and the CCP’s "False" Line  10. The Canton Commune and Trotsky’s Expulsion from the Bolshevik Party  11. Bukharin and the Right Opposition  12. The 1929 Sino-Soviet War and the Creation of the Stalinist State.  Conclusion: China and the Victory of "Socialism in One Country".  Bibliography

O autorze

Bruce 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 USSR's and China's secret diplomacy surrounding the Chinese Eastern Railway, Outer Mongolia, and the United Front policy. He is the author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001), Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45 (2006), and other books on Sino-Soviet relations and Chinese military and naval history.