Communist and nationalist in china
- At the time china was in a state of almost countinual revolutionary upheaval.
- Disputes happened in the nineteenth century
- Revolutionary and nationalist uprisings were gaining widespread support
- Nationalist sentiment started devoting rapidly in china after the Great War
- In 1921 the CCP Chinese communist party was created
- The CCP was created in Shanghai only because Chinese became interested in Marxist thought as modified by Lenin and the social and economic expiraments that where being held in the Soviet Union.
- One of the very first members was Mao Zedong (1893-1975) he was a former teacher and librarian who viewed a Marxist inspired social revolution as a cure to all the problems that China was having.
- Mao was politically radical and even extended to the issue of woman's equality which he and other communist championed.
- Chinese communist believed in divorce, opposed arranged marriages, and compaigned against the practice of foot binding
- The most prominent and important nationalist leader at the time was Sun Yatsen
- Sun was not at all enthusiastic for a dictatorship
- Sun's basic Ideology consisted of three principles of people he called for elimination of special privileges for foreigners, national reunification, economic development and a democratic republican government based on universal suffrage
- To realize these goals he came to the conclusion that he wanted to bring the entire country under his control of his National People's party or Guomindang
The two organizations availed themselves of thee assistance offered by Soviet Union
Under the doctrine of Lenin's democratic centralism..Soviet advisors helped finally recognize the Guomindang and CCP into effective political organizations.
During the process the soviets bestowed upon China the basis of a new political system.