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How Brainwashing was Good and Maoist Propaganda was True: An Interview with leading China scholar Aminda Smith
Season 1 Episode 133
This interview with Dr. Aminda Smith of Michigan State University touches on topics including why good PRC history is left history; thought reform, r…
14 hours ago
Chen Duxiu Update (or, the Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands) (1929)
Season 1 Episode 132
The story of how the co-founder and first General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party became a Trotskyist.
Further reading:
Gregor Benton, China’s…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Did the German Communists Really Say “After Hitler, Our Turn?” Exploring the Historical Evidence
Season 1 Episode 131
Responding to listener queries about the evidence behind this common assertion regarding the KPD’s underestimation of the fascist threat.
Further read…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Revolution in the ‘20s, Go For It: The ‘Third Period’ Comes to China
Season 1 Episode 130
The 1920s that is. The Comintern lets the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee know how the objective conditions in China are ripening for rev…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Chinese Communist Party Interventions in the 1929 Sino-Soviet War
Season 1 Episode 129
How the Chinese Communist Party tried to turn war into revolution in Manchuria in 1929.
Further reading:
Bruce A. Elleman and Stephen Kotkin, eds., Man…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War Concludes
Season 1 Episode 128
The final Soviet offensive, and some details on Chiang Ching-kuo’s activities as a student in Moscow.
Further reading:
Bruce A. Elleman and Stephen Kot…
8 months, 1 week ago
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War Begins
Season 1 Episode 127
Some basic military history of the beginning of the war.
Further reading:
Bruce A. Elleman and Stephen Kotkin, eds., Manchurian Railways and the Openin…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Chinese Eastern Railway: Background to the 1929 Sino-Soviet War
Season 1 Episode 126
The Guomindang moves to seize Soviet assets in Manchuria. Also, subscribe to the new substack at https://peopleshistoryofideas.substack.com/.
Further …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“On the Problem of Party Organization” (The Gutian Resolution—Part Three)
Season 1 Episode 125
Mao discusses problems in party organization and how to fix them.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangsh…
1 year, 1 month ago
“The Problem of Correcting Erroneous and Nonproletarian Ideological Tendencies in the Party” (The Gutian Resolution—Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 124
We continue our textual analysis of the Gutian Resolution.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to t…
1 year, 1 month ago