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

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

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

Contributors:

By (Author) Karl Radek
Edited by Alexander V. Pantsov
Translated by Richard Abraham
Translated by Steven I. Levine

ISBN:

9781642595994

Publisher:

Haymarket Books

Imprint:

Haymarket Books

Publication Date:

31st March 2022

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

951.04

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

510

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 228mm

Description

This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class. Radek (1885-1939) was the foremost Soviet specialist on China, a leading activist in the Russian revolutionary movement, and a leader of the Trotskyist Opposition. In these letters, articles, and minutes he presents 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 also contain communications between Trotsky and Radek, as well as the "Chronological Information" of Zionviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the All-Union Commuist Party regarding problems of the first Chinese revolution.

None of the documents collected here have ever been published in English.

Author Bio

Alexander V. Pantsov is Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. 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), Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford University Press), and Ardent Patriot: Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolution in China (forthcoming).

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