This treasure trove of original documents provides invaluable insight into the Left Opposition and the Comintern's policy in China.
This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class. Radek (1885-1939) was the foremost Soviet specialist on China, a leading activist in the Russian revolutionary movement, and a leader of the Trotskyist Opposition. In these letters, articles, and minutes he presents an original conception of the history of China from ancient times to the twentieth century, as well as a delineation of the fundamental political problems of China in the 1920s. The appendices also contain communications between Trotsky and Radek, as well as the "Chronological Information" of Zionviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the All-Union Commuist Party regarding problems of the first Chinese revolution.
None of the documents collected here have ever been published in English.
Muu info
Features in Historical Materialism Promotion targeting left academic journals Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
| Preface |
|
xi | |
| Abbreviations |
|
xiii | |
| Karl Radek -- Sinologist |
|
1 | (15) |
|
|
|
1 On the Fundamentals of Communist Policy in China 22 June 1926 |
|
|
16 | (6) |
|
2 History of the Revolutionary Movement in China: The 1926--7 Lecture Course Fall 1926 -- Early 1927 |
|
|
22 | (186) |
|
3 Controversial Questions of Chinese History: Lecture to the Society of Marxist Historians 26 November 1926, Stenographic Report |
|
|
208 | (18) |
|
4 On the International Situation of China 11 March 1927, Stenographic Report |
|
|
226 | (22) |
|
5 Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution: Lecture to the Communist Academy 13 March 1927, Stenographic Report |
|
|
248 | (35) |
|
6 Concluding Word to the Lecture `Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution' 27 March 1927, Stenographic Report |
|
|
283 | (23) |
|
7 The `Betrayal' of the National Movement by the Chinese Upper Bourgeoisie Early May 1927 |
|
|
306 | (64) |
|
8 Speech at the Institute of World Economy and World Politics of the Communist Academy during the Discussion of the Lecture by L.N. Geller on the Chinese Workers' Movement 17 May 1927, Stenographic Report |
|
|
370 | (15) |
|
9 A New Stage in the Chinese Revolution: From Chiang Kai-shek to Wang Jingwei 2 July 1927, G.E. Evdokimov, G.E. Zinoviev, K.B. Radek, G.I. Safarov, L.D. Trotsky |
|
|
385 | (34) |
| Appendix 1 Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 26 June 1926 |
|
419 | (1) |
| Appendix 2 Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 14 May 1927 |
|
420 | (3) |
| Appendix 3 Facts and Documents Which Should Be Available for Verification by Every Member of the AUCP(b) and the Whole Comintern: Chronological Information 21 May 1927, G.E. Zinoviev and L.D. Trotsky |
|
423 | (11) |
| Biographical Dictionary |
|
434 | (37) |
| Works Cited |
|
471 | (11) |
| Bibliography of the Published Works of K.B. Radek on China and Literature about K.B. Radek |
|
482 | (8) |
| Index |
|
490 | |
Alexander V. Pantsov is Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He has published fifteen books and numerous book chapters and articles on China and Russia. Among them are The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 (University of Hawai'i Press), Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford University Press), and Ardent Patriot: Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolution in China (forthcoming).
