Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives

Pantsov, Alexander V. (Editor)/ Abraham, Richard (Translator)/ Levine, Steven I. (Translator)

ISBN 10: 9004232699 / ISBN 13: 9789004232693

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2020

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496 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004232699
• ISBN 13: 9789004232693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.89 kilograms

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Synopsis

The collection of archival documents Karl Radek on China reflects the views of one of the major Soviet China specialists, activists of the Russian revolutionary movement, and leaders of the Trotskyist Opposition, Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885-1939). The documents present an original conception of the history of China from ancient times to the twentieth century as well as a delineation of the fundamental political problems of China in the 1920s. The appendices contain letters from Trotsky to Radek as well as the 'Chronological Information' of Zinoviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the AUCP(b) regarding problems of the Chinese revolution. None of the documents have ever been published in English.

About the Author

Alexander V. Pantsov, Ph.D. (1983), is Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. He has published fifteen books and numerous book chapters and articles on China and Russia. Among them are The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2000), Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster, 2012), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Ardent Patriot: Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolution in China (forthcoming).