CHINESE COMMUNISM AND THE RISE OF MAO By Benjamin Schwartz

Description: Very early edition. Free shipping in US PUBLISHER'S NOTE Communistic doctrine and Communist leadership as they have developed in China, and their changing relationships to the Kremlin, are the subjects of this documented, readable - and controversial - book. Mr. Schwartz points out that we have witnessed in China not only an elemental upsurge of the masses, but also the rise to power of a vigorous new ruling group basing itself on a forceful new strategy neither planned in advance nor anticipated by the Kremlin. In general, it is Mr. Schwartz' view that in spite of its seeming "successes," Marxism has undergone a slow but steady decomposition in its movement eastward, and he shows how that pro-cess, in which Lenin and Stalin have already played a role, has been carried forward yet another step by the experience of the Chinese Communist Party. He studies the beginnings of Communism in China — how and why it caught hold, first, with the intellectuals, and the personalities and backgrounds of the two party founders, Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao. He then analyzes the peculiar nature of the Communist-Kuo-mintang alliance of 1924 and the causes of its collapse. Here he shows that the alliance was not formed on the initiative of the Chinese Communist party and even ran counter to the wishes of some of its leaders (including Ch'en Tu-hsiu), and he discusses the role played by Mao Tse-tung during these years. Mr. Schwartz goes on to trace the growing isolation of the Chinese Communist Party from the urban prole- Continued from front flap tariat; the shift of power to Mao-Tse-tung in the countryside; and the emergence of a new stategy whose relation to the Kremlin's party line is more a matter of faith than of fact. For, under the leadership of Mao, the Chinese Party, while firmly convinced of its own orthodoxy, came to realize in the face of Marxist-Leninist doctrine that the peasantry could itself provide the mass basis and the motive power for a revolutionary transformation - and acted on that belief. Moreover, during the New Democracy period, Mao became intent on proving himself a theoretical innovator in the line of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin — and for a time, at least, he has received Moscow's acquiescence in this also. To what extent the differences between the development of Communism in China and the Kremlin affect the fundamental identity of aims and dogma is the subject of Mr. Schwartz' thoughtful — and thought-provoking - final chapter. Mr. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of History, and a Research Associate of the Russian Research Center, in Harvard University. His basic sources for this book include many Chinese, Japanese, and Russian materials never used before in western literature on Chinese Com-munism: many excerpts from these materials, translated by the author, are quoted in the text. Russian Research Center Studies, 4 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

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