People's History of Ideas Podcast

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Revolution in the ‘20s, Go For It: The ‘Third Period’ Comes to China

Revolution in the ‘20s, Go For It: The ‘Third Period’ Comes to China31 oct 202527 min

The 1920s that is. The Comintern lets the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee know how the objective conditions in China are ripening for revolution. Further reading: Nikolai Bukharin, “On the International Situation and the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party” Nicholas Kozlov and Eric Weitz, “Reflections on the Origins of the ‘Third Period’: Bukharin, the Comintern, and the Political Economy of Weimar Germany” Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depress...