A Brief History of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army - (Revised Edition)

Author: Li Pingping
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This is a systematic and comprehensive history of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the 1930s. Based on reference to existing works and a large amount of relevant materials, the book focuses on original telegrams and documents from that time, as well as recent research findings in the field of Party history, to narrate the events with a view to ensuring historical accuracy. It also addresses and supplements some previously unresolved issues. The decade from the failure of the Great Revolution to the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan was a crucial period for the Communist Party of China to grow from infancy to political maturity. During this time, the Party underwent two severe tests: the failure of the Great Revolution and the defeat in the fifth anti-"encirclement campaign." In the unimaginably harsh environment, the Communist Party of China remained undaunted, worked diligently, and weathered the darkest moments, miraculously creating a new situation. The history of these ten years proves that both dogmatism, which divorces theory from practice and blindly copies foreign experiences, and the practice of directing China's revolution from an international command center far removed from China are wrong. Although the Party made "Leftist" errors in its guiding ideology several times during this decade, it ultimately corrected its mistakes and drew lessons, implementing the correct line, policies, and measures. It achieved the transition from the War of Land Revolution to the War of National Resistance Against Japan, advancing the Chinese revolution to a new stage. This is a period of history worth every Communist revisiting and learning from.