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

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 DepressionTheodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawSebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919Chen Jian, Zhou Enlai: A LifeJane Degras, ed., The Communist International, 1919-1943: Documents, vol. 3: 1929-1943 So Wai-chor, The Kuomintang Left in the National Revolution, 1924–1931Some names from this episode:Nikolai Bukharin, general secretary of the executive committee of the Comintern (1926-1929)Rosa Luxemburg, German communist leader murdered in 1919Karl Liebknecht, German communist leader murdered in 1919Li Lisan, leading CommunistStalin, StalinFeng Yuxiang, northwestern warlord who turned on Chiang Kai-shek during Sino-Soviet warWang Jingwei, the overall leader of the Guomindang LeftChen Gongbo, main ideologue of the Reorganization Comrades AssociationChen Duxiu, co-founder of the Communist PartyHe Long, leader of a soviet in the Hunan-Hubei border regionEpisode artwork:Li Lisan with familySupport the show