Why Was The United Front Entered Into?

Paper Summary:

This paper analyzes the political background and history of the united front policy in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century and subsequently in China after the formation of the communist parties, as well as the alliance between the Soviet and Chinese communist governments. The writer describes how the Bolsheviks turned to China to continue the world revolution and how Lenin's military and economic support of Sun Yat-sen helped to ally the two main communist parties in China at that time. However, with Stalin's rise to power, the Russian Comintern began to direct the Chinese revolution not so much to ensure its victory but rather to secure their alliance with China. This ultimately led to the destruction of the CCP.

Outline:
Chapter One:
Why Was The United Front Entered Into?
Wider Foreign Policy Implications of the Soviet Union
Leninist Strategy on the Colonial Question - Alliances with Bourgeois Groups
Benefits of the Alliance to the CCP and the GMD
GMD
CCP
The CCP as Being Greatly Influenced by the Comintern and the Soviet Union
Chapter Two
Development of the United Front and the Nature of the Relationship Between the CCP and the GMD - Equal Partners or Subordination?
Nature of the Early Relationship Under Lenin & Sun
Changes Under Stalin
Wider Foreign Policy Thinking
Stalin V. Trotsky
The Role of the CCP and the Left GMD in Their Downfall
Comintern as an Arm of Stalin
Comintern Sentencing the CCP to Death in 1927
Chapter Three
Other Reasons For the Failure of the United Front
Peasant and Agrarian Question - Getting Down to the 'Rice Roots'
The Role of Chiang Kai-shek
No Military Forces and the Naivety of the CCP

From the Paper:

"The CCP was a tiny party during this time barely claiming a thousand members in 1923, due to it only having been established in 1921 in Shanghai. Then, it was no more than a grouping of radical intellectuals who having been influenced greatly by the May Fourth Movement, wanted to see further and greater change and reform in Chinese society and who regarded that the best way to achieve this would be to form a communist party. The CCP if united with the GMD could gain more members and grow from its humble size and it would also gain the prestige of affiliation with the famous Sun Yat-sen who was regarded as the father of China's Republic and the cooperation of his organization."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Baku Congress Of The Peoples Of The East, Baku, September 1920, Stenographic Report, Translated and annotated by Brian Pearce (New Park Publications, London, 1997)
• V.I. Lenin, "Address To The Second All-Russian Congress Of Communist Organizations Of The Peoples Of The East, November 1922, 1919", cited in Collected Works, vol. 30
• A.12 - 'Manifesto Of The Second Party Congress, (July 1922)' cited in Tony Saich, The Rise To Power Of The Chinese Communist Party (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1996)
• A.11 - 'Resolution On The Democratic United Front', cited in Tony Saich The Rise To Power Of The Chinese Communist Party (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1996)
• A.17 - 'Instructions For The ECCI Representative In South China. H. Maring (August 1922)' cited in Tony Saich 'The Rise To Power Of The Chinese Communist Party (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1996)

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