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Title Prophets unarmed : Chinese Trotskyists in revolution, war, jail, and the return from limbo / edited by Gregor Benton
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2015
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Series Historical materialism book series ; volume 81
Historical materialism book series ; v. 81
Contents Acknowledgements; Editor's Introduction; Part 1 Purgatory: The Chinese Trotskyists' Ordeal and Struggle; Preface; Moscow's Sun Yat-sen University; The Year 1931; Chen Duxiu; Peng Shuzhi; The Chinese Trotskyists' Unification Congress; Traitors and Informers; Chen Duxiu's Last Years; Chen Qichang; Zheng Chaolin; Huang Jiantong; Du Weizhi; Wang Guolong, Zhou Rensheng, and Zhou Lüqiang; Epilogue; Postscript; Part 2 Autobiographical Accounts of Chinese Trotskyists' Early Years; Unfinished Autobiography; A Consciousness Awakes; My First Contact With New Ideas
Part 3 Chinese Trotskyists in the Revolution of 1925-7Before and After May Thirtieth; Two Years at University; Part 4 Chinese Trotskyists in Moscow; Twelve People; Chinese Students in Moscow; Chinese Students at the International Lenin School in Moscow, 1926-38: Light from the Russian Archives; Stalin and the Chinese Communist Dissidents; Part 5 The Unification of the Chinese Trotskyists; Appeal to All Comrades of the Chinese Communist Party; An Ebbing or a Flowing Tide?; The Left Opposition; Unification of the Four Groups; Part 6 Chinese Trotskyism in the 1930s and the 1940s
The Founding of Struggle and the Darkest Days of My LifeChen Duxiu, the Chinese Trotskyists, and the War of Resistance; The Pacific War and a New Split in the Organisation; From War to Revolution; The Communist League of China; Part 7 Chen Duxiu; Chen Duxiu, Founder of Chinese Communism; Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists; Chen Duxiu Had No Wish to Rejoin the CCP on Leaving Jail; Preface to the Collected Poems of Chen Duxiu; Part 8 Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters (1937-42); Editor's Introduction to Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters; Letter to Chen Qichang and Others
Letter to Leon TrotskyLetter to Xiliu and Others; Letter to Xiliu and Others; Letter to Xiliu; Letter to Liangen; Letter to Xiliu; My Basic Views; Letter to Y; Letter to H and S; A Sketch of the Post-War World; Once Again on the World Situation; The Future of the Oppressed Nations; My Feelings on the Death of Mr Cai Jiemin; On Chen Duxiu's Last Views; Part 9 Peng Shuzhi and Wang Fanxi on Leon Trotsky; Introduction to Leon Trotsky on China; Introduction: Leon Trotsky and Chinese Communism; Part 10 Peng Shuzhi and Wang Fanxi: A Confrontation; Trotskyism in China; Problems of Chinese Trotskyism
Part 11 Some Articles and Speeches by Trotsky about the Chinese Trotskyists and Some Correspondence between Him and ThemThe Speech of Comrade Chen Duxiu on the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party; A Remarkable Document on the Policy and the Régime of the Communist International; Peasant War in China and the Proletariat; A Strategy of Action and Not of Speculation: Letter to Beijing Friends. What are, at Present, the Chief Elements of the Political Situation in China?; Excerpts from Letters from China Written or Copied to Trotsky (1934); Chen Duxiu and the General Council
Summary Prophets Unarmed is an authoritative sourcebook on the Chinese Communist Party's main early opposition. The Opposition's standpoints and proposals and its association with the democratic movement are not without relevance to China's present crisis of morals and authority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 7, 2015)
Subject Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
SUBJECT Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 fast
Subject Communism -- China -- History
Communists -- China -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
Communism
Communists
China
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Benton, Gregor
ISBN 9789004282278
9004282270