ABOUT THIS BOOK

In the two-decade period from 1928 to 1948, the proletarian themes and issues underlying the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological utterances were shrouded in rhetoric designed, perhaps, as much to disguise as to chart actual class strategies. Rhetoric notwithstanding, a careful analysis of such pronouncements is vitally important in following and evaluating the party’s changing lines during this key revolutionary period. The function of the “proletariat” in the complex of policy issues and leadership struggles which developed under the precarious circumstances of those years had an importance out of all proportion to labor’s relatively minor role in the post-1927 Communist led revolution. [1, 2]

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

S. Bernard Thomas is Professor Emeritus of History at Oakland University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. A Peasant War Led by the Proletariat: The Class Line for the Post-1927 Soviet Era

II. The Quest for a Revolutionary Upsurge: Urban Labor and the CCP, 1928-35

III. Labor and the Kiangsi Soviet: Problems of the Proletarian Line, 1931-32

IV. Labor and the Kiangsi Soviet: Problems of the Proletarian Line, Phase Two, 1933-34

V. The Anti-Japanese National Front and CCP Urban Labor Policy, 1936-44

VI. Labor Organization and Early Wartime Labor-Industry Patterns in the Border Region and North China Base Areas

VII. The Labor Policies of Post-1940 "Yenan Communism"

VIII. From the Japanese Surrender to Communist Victory: 1945-48 Labor Policies

Conclusion

Abbreviations to Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

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