About this episode
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
