Record of Yan'an Rectification Campaign

Author: Gao Xinmin
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: More than half a century ago, a heart-stirring Rectification Movement took place in Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, China. Under special historical conditions, it was an ideological education movement aimed at eliminating the great losses caused to the Chinese revolution by "Leftist" dogmatism, as well as a movement for ideological liberation that broke the sanctification of Soviet experience and Comintern resolutions. With fresh language, the author records the origins and developments of the Rectification Movement in Yan'an and other bases, analyzes its causes and logical progression, and reveals the necessity, twists, and complexities of party construction. The author also provides objective and realistic evaluations of important events and figures involved in the Yan'an Rectification Movement. Based on extensive research into historical materials and incorporating beneficial findings from domestic and international studies, the author clarifies some misconceptions about historical facts, making this book a richly documented, factually credible, uniquely distinctive, and highly readable specialized historical work on the topic.