The Second United Frontwas the brief alliance between the Chinese Nationalists Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) and Communist Party of China (CPC) to resist the Japanese invasion during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1941. Chinese Civil War (1927-19...
aTai'an Campaign was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists during Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era, and resulted in the communist victory. The communists also refer this campaign as Campaign to Move Eastward (东进战役), and viewed this campaign ...
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the CCP collaborated with Japanese war criminals in a concerted effort for the sole purpose of crippling Nationalist power, allowing millions of innocent civilians to face horrendously decibel torture, rape, and murder by the Japanese Army, most notably in the ...
The entire history of the CPC is permeated by the struggle between two concepts—the proletarian internationalist and the petit-bourgeois nationalist—and the struggle against right-wing and “leftist” opportunist deviations. At the end of the 1950’s the great-power nationalist course gained sway ...
Anyone making a study of the causes that led to the fall of the Chinese mainland into Communist hands will have to examine the long struggles between the two major rival parties in China, the Nationalists or the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists. As the author once took a personal part...
On October 3, 1968, the 6th Congress has 84 and 34 delegates, and there were about 40,000 members. After the party’s success over the Nationalists, the participation at the National Party Congress has become less representative. There were also subsequent congresses that caused the number of...
The Bolsheviks’ work in laying the foundation for the Third International brought increasingly tangible results as the working class became more active and gradually freed itself from nationalist war hysteria, along with broad strata of the workers who learned from their own experience that social ...
Both the nationalist and communist factions contributed to the war effort. After WW2, China was occupied partially by the communist Soviet Union: particularly in the far north, including the province of Manchuria. Recognizing Mao and the Communist Party as the legitimate government, the USSR turned...
In the aftermath of World War II, while parliamentary democracy was being re-established in Italy and Germany, liberal democracy was definitively consolidated in Western Europe and, after 1945, there were no new dictatorships in this part of the continent. From among the nationalist dictatorships ...
After the defeat of the nationalists in a civil war, Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. The nationalists flee to the island of Taiwan and form a government in Taipei. ...