By Thomas Kampen
An research of the ability struggles which happened in the management of the chinese language Communist get together among 1931, whilst the CCP left Shanghai for the Jiangxi Soviet, and 1945, in which time Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai had emerged as senior CCP leaders (and thereafter governed the get together until eventually their deaths). in line with lately published chinese language assets, the publication demanding situations original perspectives that Mao Zedong grew to become the CCP chief throughout the lengthy March (1934-35) and that via 1935 the CCP used to be autonomous of the Comintern in Moscow. the result's a critique, not just of reliable chinese language historiography, but in addition of Western, and particularly US, scholarship.
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In the following years he worked for several leftist journals and taught at Shanghai University (Chen Yutang 1993: 413; Sheng Ping 1991: 380). Sheng Zhongliang, who published a book on Sun Yat-sen University (as Sheng Yueh), did not discuss his own background. He was born around 1905 in Liling (Hunan) and seems to have joined the CCP before his departure to Moscow (1926) (Cao Zhongbin 1989: 4). He had studied in Peking from 1923 to 1926 and worked in the local CCP propaganda department (Yao Weidou 1980: 815).
Only a few ‘Bolsheviks’ attended and very few entered the Central Committee and Politburo. Moreover, there is no reliable evidence for the promotion of Wang Ming to the post of general secretary in the following summer. As Li Lisan had left China one month before the plenum and as Xiang Zhongfa and Zhou Enlai managed to adjust to the new line and remain in the leadership, the main effect of the Plenum was not the eradication of the ‘leftist Li Lisan group’, but in connection with the execution of He Mengxiong and expulsion of Luo Zhanglong, the suppression of the ‘rightists’.
In 1951, Benjamin Schwartz argued: Thus we find that when Mif was appointed Comintern delegate to China in the spring of 1930, his young protégés accompanied him back to China. (Schwartz 1951: 149) In the chronology of his impressive collection of communist documents, Hsiao Tso-liang also claimed: May or early June 1930: Pavel Mif arrives in China as Comintern delegate, bringing with him a group of his protégés popularly known as the Russian Returned Students. (Hsiao 1961: 307–8) Even in the 1980s, when numerous new sources were available, Jürgen Domes still repeated this interpretation: The ‘bolsheviks’ had arrived in China with the new Comintern representative of the CCP Central Committee, Pavel Mif.
