Bruce Elleman

Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925-30 (eBook, ePUB)

The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army

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Produktbeschreibung

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 People's Liberation Army to this event.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134002559
• Artikelnr.: 38244085

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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