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From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927

By Hans J. van de Ven

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0520072715, 9780520072718
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8948678 bytes)
Pages
384\389
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-07-12 06:32:34
China;Asia;History;Communism & Socialism;Ideologie

Description

Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J. van de Ven's study is based on party documents of the 1920s that have only recently become available, as well as the writings of a wide range of Chinese communists. He analyzes the party's difficulty in building a cohesive organization firmly rooted in Chinese society. While past scholarship has emphasized the influence of Soviet communism on the CCP, van de Ven stresses the thinking and actions of Chinese communists themselves, placing their struggle in the context of China's political history and highly complex society.

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