Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives

by Karl Radek, Alexander V. Pantsov (Editor), Richard Abraham (Translator), Steven I. Levine (Translator)

Overview

This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class. Radek (1885-1939) was the foremost Soviet specialist on China, a leading activist in the Russian revolutionary movement, and a leader of the Trotskyist Opposition. In these letters, articles, and minutes he presents an original conception of the history of China from ancient times to the twentieth century, as well as a delineation of the fundamental political problems of China in the 1920s. The appendices also contain communications between Trotsky and Radek, as well as the "Chronological Information" of Zionviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the All-Union Commuist Party regarding problems of the first Chinese revolution.

None of the documents collected here have ever been published in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642595994
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	12/23/2021
Series:	Historical Materialism
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alexander V. Pantsov is Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He has published fifteen books and numerous book chapters and articles on China and Russia. Among them are The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 (University of Hawai'i Press), Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford UniversityPress), and Ardent Patriot: Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolution in China (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Abbreviations xii

Karl Radek - Sinologist Alexander V. Pantsov 1

1 On the Fundamentals of Communist Policy in China

22 June 1926 16

2 History of the Revolutionary Movement in China: The 1926-7 Lecture Course

Fall 1926 - Early 1927 22

3 Controversial Questions of Chinese History: Lecture to the Society of Marxist Historians

26 November 1926, Stenographic Report 208

4 On the International Situation of China

11 March 1927, Stenographic Report 226

5 Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution: Lecture to the Communist Academy

13 March 1927, Stenographic Report 248

6 Concluding Word to the Lecture 'Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution'

27 March 1927, Stenographic Report 283

7 The 'Betrayal' of the National Movement by the Chinese Upper Bourgeoisie

Early May 1927 306

8 Speech at the Institute of World Economy and World Politics of the Communist Academy during the Discussion of the Lecture by L.N. Geller on the Chinese Workers' Movement

17 May 1927, Stenographic Report 370

9 A New Stage in the Chinese Revolution: From Chiang Kai-shek to Wang Jingwei

2 July 1927, G.E. Evdokimov, G.E. Zinoviev, K.B. Radek, G.I. Safarov, L.D. Trotsky 385

Appendix 1 Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 26 June 1926 419

Appendix 2 Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 14 May 1927 420

Appendix 3 Facts and Documents Winch Should Be Available for Verification by Every Member of the AUCP(b) and the Whole Comintern: Chronological Information

27 May 1927, G.E. Zinoviev and L.D. Trotsky 423

Biographical Dictionary 434

Works Cited 471

Bibliography of the Published Works of K.B. Radek on China and Literature about K.B. Radek 482

Index 490