Growth of Communist Movement in China

The purpose of this research is to examine the growth of the communist movement in China in the 22 years before the 1949 revolution. The plan of the research will be to discuss how the party gained mass support for social revolution, with reference to specific policies pursued by the party, as well as problems and opportunities that staying with those policies created.

Following the victory of the Communist rebels in China in 1949, the government of China was reconstituted as the People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Tsetung. The rural peasantry scattered throughout the many Chinese provinces appears to have been an important element of the Communist victory, hence a key to the structure of postrevolutionary society. The victory of 1949, then, was the outgrowth of nearly 25 years of political struggle and careful political planning. The longterm connection of Mao with the peasantry has been noted by a number of commentators. Initially an urban revolutionary, Mao "grasped the peasants' revolutionary possibilities" (Solomon, 1971, p. 191) in the mid1920s. Solomon quotes Mao's view of the central role of the peasantry in revolutionary theory:

Formerly I had not fully realized the degree of class

struggle among the peasantry, but after the May 30

[1925] Incident, and during the great wave of

political activity which followed it, the Hunanese

peasantry became very militant. I left my home, where

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