People's History of Ideas Podcast
By Matthew Rothwell
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In this podcast, Matthew Rothwell, author of Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America, explores the global history of ideas related to rebellion and revolution. The main focus of this podcast for the near future will be on the history of the Chinese Revolution, going all the way back to its roots in the initial Chinese reactions to British imperialism during the Opium War of 1839-1842, and then following the development of the revolution and many of the ideas that were products of the revolution through to their transnational diffusion in the late 20th century.
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The Battle for Shanghang (mid-September 1929)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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The Politburo in Shanghai Discusses the Line Struggle in the Red Army and Issues the September Instruction
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Mao gets Kicked from Party Leadership, and Organizes a Land Reform in Western Fujian
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Mao’s 14 June 1929 Letter to Lin Biao
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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The Line Struggle Between Mao Zedong and Zhu De (May to June 1929)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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The Red Army Victorious: The Conquest of Several Counties in Jiangxi and Fujian in the Spring of 1929
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Mao Tells Zhou Enlai about Guerrilla Warfare
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Party Center Attempts to Assert Control over the Red Army and Orders Mao and Zhu to Report to Shanghai
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Mao’s March 20 Letter to the Central Committee, and the 5th Red Army’s Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to April 1929)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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On the Experience of the National Bourgeoisie in the New Democratic Revolution
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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A New Communist Order in Changting (March 1929)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Leaving Donggu, Taking Changting (February to March 1929)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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From Dabodi to Donggu: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan Continues (February 1929)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Running for Their Lives: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to February 1929)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Frameworks for Thinking about Tragic Historical Shortcomings of the Socialist Experience
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The End of the Sixth Congress
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Clashing Communists and Comintern Guidance: The 6th Congress Gets off to a Rocky Start
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Bukharin on the Nature of the Chinese Revolution in 1928
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Bukharin on the Theory of the Productive Forces (and Mao’s counterpoint on New Democratic Revolution)
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May 27, 2023 |
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The ‘Third Period’ of the World Revolution: Bukharin’s Speech at the Sixth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (June 1928)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Preparations for the Sixth Party Congress (April to May 1928)
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May 13, 2023 |
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The Bailu Conference: Suppressing Orders from the Party Congress and Preparing to Leave the Jinggangshan (January 1929)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Base Area under Economic Blockade and Unification with the Fifth Red Army (End of 1928)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Vagrants, Mercenaries, and Rich Peasants (November 1928)
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Transforming, Building, and Purging the Party (September to November 1928)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Opportunism and Self-Criticism: The Jinggangshan Party Congress Resolution of October 1928
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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“Why Is It that Red Political Power Can Exist in China?” (October 1928)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The August Defeat (Part 2): The Communists Strike Back (August to November 1928)
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The August Defeat (Part 1)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Yongxin Joint Conference and Mao’s July 4, 1928 Report to the Hunan Provincial Committee
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Clandestine Transcripts of Revolutionary Globalization: The Shining Paths of Late Cultural Revolution Maoism
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Nuclear War and Communist Revolution
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Beginning of the Midyear Crisis (June 1928)
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Land Revolution and Communist Party Growth: The High Tide of the Jinggangshan Base Area (Summer 1928)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Beating Back Suppression Campaigns and Expanding the Jinggangshan Base Area (May to June 1928)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The Jinggangshan Junction of Forces: Mao Zedong and Zhu De Unite (April to May 1928)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The Wages of Revolution: Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 3)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Friendship, Compartmentalization, and Assassination Squads: Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 2)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 1)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Mao’s (Temporary) Expulsion from the Communist Party and the Collapse of the South Hunan Uprising (March and April 1928)
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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The Southern Hunan Uprising (Early 1928)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Studying Marxism and Getting Thrown in Jail: Zhu De in Germany (1922-1926)
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Zhu De and The Army for the Defense of the Republic in Sichuan and Yunnan (1916-1922)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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From Gym Teacher to General: Zhu De in Revolution and Rebellion (1907-1916)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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From Poor Peasant to Gym Teacher: The Early Life of Zhu De
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Engels on Insurrection
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Guangzhou Commune (December 11-13, 1927)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Red Canton: Background to the Guangzhou Uprising of December 1927
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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‘Blind Actionism’ in Action: Understanding the Hundreds of Small Revolts Led by Communists at the End of the 1920s in China
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Summing Up Failures, or Playing the Blame Game? The November 1927 Politburo Meeting in Shanghai
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Sedan Chairs, Tired Intellectuals, and Indifferent Masses: The Denouement of the Nanchang Uprising/Southern Expedition (August to October 1927)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Hearts, Minds, and a Head on a Spike: The Unification of People and Forces in the Jinggangshan
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Secret Agent for International Maoism: José Venturelli, Chinese Informal Diplomacy and Latin American Maoism
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Two Incursions, One Betrayal, and Six Points for Attention: The Red Army in Chaling and Suichuan (October 1927 to January 1928)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Alliances, Discipline, and an Army to Serve the People: The Beginning of the Jinggangshan Base Area (October 1927)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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The Early Jinggangshan Revolutionary Movement
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Mao’s Bandit Comrades: Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Bandits of the Jinggangshan
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Background on Society and Economy in the Jinggang Mountains
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Entering the Jinggangshan: The Sanwan Reorganization of the People’s Army
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan
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May 27, 2021 |
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Planning the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan
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May 21, 2021 |
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The Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hubei
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May 15, 2021 |
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The “Tender-Hearted Communist:” Qu Qiubai
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May 08, 2021 |
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Army or Militia? Mao and the Politburo Diverge on Military Policy for the Autumn Harvest Uprising
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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The Decisive Turn to Overthrowing the Guomindang: The 7 August 1927 Emergency Conference
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The Nanchang Uprising (August 1, 1927)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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The End of the United Front (June to July 1927)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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“Like Taking a Bath in a Toilet” (May and June 1927)
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Mao Tries to Legislate a Peasant Revolution: The Wuhan Land Commission (April to May 1927)
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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“An Example of the Chinese Tenant-Peasant’s Life”
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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The Fifth Party Congress and the ‘Better Fewer but Better’ Approach to Summing up a Massacre
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Rivers of Blood in the Streets of Shanghai: The Massacre of the Communists by the Guomindang Right
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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The Third Armed Uprising in Shanghai
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Split in the Guomindang: The Left Government in Wuhan and the Military Headquarters in Nanchang Develop Irreconcilable Differences (January to March 1927)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Summation, Red Terror, and Frustration: The Aftermath of the Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February and March 1927)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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The Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February 1927)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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From Dog-Beating Squads to the First Armed Uprising: The Shanghai Communists’ Steep Learning Curve in Developing Armed Struggle (1922 to 1926)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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When Peasant Revolution Meets the Theory of the Productive Forces: The Communist Debate on Unity with the Nationalist Left
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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More Mass Movements, More Problems: The Aggressive Line of the Guangdong Comrades
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Revolution in the Countryside: The Peasant Movement in Hunan in the Wake of the Northern Expedition
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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The Northern Expedition Begins: Attempts at Merging the Mass Movement with Regular Warfare
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Mao in 1926: War in Hunan, Coup in Guangzhou, Polemicizing for the Peasant Movement
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Spreading Peasant Revolution Across Guangdong, and Beyond: The Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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The Beginning of the Peasant Movement in Guangdong Province: How the Communist Party Got a Mass Base of Peasant Support in Spite of Itself
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The March 1926 Zhongshan Gunboat Incident: Coup and Countercoup in the Pearl River Delta
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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From Quaker Peace Activist to Maoist Revolutionary: An Oral History of Personal Transformation from a 1971 American Delegation to China
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Bonus: New China Song by Prairie Fire
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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The Beginning of Maoism: Mao Zedong’s “Analysis of All the Classes in Chinese Society”
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Propaganda, Criticism and Corruption: Mao as Propagandist and Disciplinarian (October 1925 to early 1926)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Strike, Assassination and War: The Revolution/Counter-Revolution Dialectic in Guangdong in the Second Half of 1925
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Guangdong Spring 1925: Revolutionary Warfare Erupts and Workers Shut Down Hong Kong
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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The Soviet Military Alliance with the Guomindang, and the Creation of the National Revolutionary Army
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Peasant Revolution?: An Exhausted Mao Rediscovers His Roots
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Gonzalo in the Middle Kingdom: What Abimael Guzmán Tells Us in His Three Discussions of His Two Trips to China
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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The May 30 Movement: The Chinese People’s Uprising Against the British and Japanese in 1925
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Lenin’s Ideas on Revolutionary Situations and the Situation in the United States Today
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Back to the Labor Front!: The Japanese Mills Strike of 1925
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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The Proletarian Nation vs. The Theory of the Productive Forces
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Friends Close, Enemies Closer: The United Front in Action
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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The Road Is Tortuous: The Chinese Revolution and the End of the Global Sixties
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May 28, 2020 |
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The Loneliest United Front: The Chinese Communist Party in 1923
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May 21, 2020 |
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Communist Unionizing and the Genesis of the United Front with the Guomindang
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May 14, 2020 |
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Workers' Revolution or Nationalist United Front? Early Strategic Decisions of the Chinese Communist Party
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May 07, 2020 |
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Demarcation and Organization: The Chinese Communist Party is Founded
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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From Russia with Organizational Expertise: The Comintern Comes to China
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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The Communist International
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Mao's Anarchist Years (The Young Mao Zedong Part Two)
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Liberals Becoming Marxists: The New Culture and May 4th Movements (1915-1919)
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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The Young Mao Zedong
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Dec 21, 2019 |
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The 1911 Revolution
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Revolutionary Voices from the End of the Qing Dynasty
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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The Boxer Uprising of 1900
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Kang Youwei and the Hundred Days Reform
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Losing the Tributaries: The Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars in Vietnam and Korea
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Book Review of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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The Self-Strengthening Movement: Too Little Too Late?
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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The Second Opium War and the End of the Taiping Civil War
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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The Taiping Revolution
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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The Opium War and the Beginning of China's Century of Humiliation
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May 31, 2019 |
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Introducing the People's History of Ideas Podcast
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May 29, 2019 |