Revolution In The Rural Society

The focus of thesis is on the Gandongbei revolutionary base area between the years of 1924 and 1934. Its source materials come diversely from the various historical archives, newspapers and journals, gazetteers, county-level collections of revolutionary materials, and large number of revolution witnesses' memorial and oral records. After detailed analysis of the data, most of them seldom tapped, the thesis deals deeply with some problems about the relations of revolution and society by absorbing recent research achievements in the history, sociology, anthropology, politics and economics sciences, and answers a few of China's and western hot theories, generalizations and notions of the Chinese Communist movement. Finally the thesis presents its own views.When concerning the rural strategy of the Chinese Revolution, most existing works take its starting point as the Strike of February Seventh, or the Second Congress of Comintern on which Lenin put forward the relevant program. The detailed reading of historical documents shows there is a chronicle gap from the year of 1920 to 1923, which previous works had not paid attention to. It is the time span that both the Comintern and the CCP never seriously laid their revolution hope on the Chinese peasants. Moreover, the CCP first documents of rural revolution strategy at the bottom of 1923, and the step-by-step upgrading and deepening of these documents, were all contributed to the Comintern's overestimating of revolution initiative in the Chinese peasantry. At the auspice of the Comintern, they take their stride. The Comintern thought highly about the peasant revolution expectation. However, many of them just as audience in the splendid peasant movements in the region of Gandongbei, stood aloof from the movements. Unlike some students proposed, this does not mean the peasants have revolution passion or not. The two propositions have equally deficiency. In Chapter One, comparing the presence and absence of local revolutionary elites, such as Fang Zhimin and Shao Sniping, and their activities in or not in their home prefecture, it discovers that the peasant joining the revolution or not is not destined, and heavenly depends on there are revolutionary leaders who introduce and organize the peasants into revolution.The Gandongbei base area broke out several times revolution deluges. Chapter Two making a stereotyped analysis of how a peasant stepped into the deluge, discloses that it was social communication nexus in their ordinary life that introduced a large part of them became involved in the revolution. Few came in spite of a greatdistance. In the process, certain people made themselves revolutionary elites and activists by manifesting ardor, influence and organizing capacity for the revolution. They played a greater role than average peasants in the making of a rural revolution deluge.While there are some places anti-penetrating revolution, many places grew revolution organizations. After a elaborated comparison, Chapter Three found out that it could been traced to the solidarity which most villages have not any of. These place almost having not any official organizations, nor innate social ones, revolution organizations rapidly sprawled out. The disintegration of peasant community helped to make a discern and difference between enemy and ours. Some local bully and bad gentlemen, resorting to no organized power, were readily targeted and downed .Though they were partly imbued localism and lineage's feelings, the revolutionary actions toward local bully and bad gentlemen basically reflected some kind of justice ideas within the peasant society. This tell us the economists long-timely oversaw the facts that property right has been dominated at different degrees by social justice arguments in certain historical context.Many authors said little about how the revolution went on in the peasant. The study of referent materials shows that it greatly related to the rigidity of revolutionary structure which the CCP set up and predominated. The revolutionary system's rig...