Summing Up Failures, or Playing the Blame Game? The November 1927 Politburo Meeting in Shanghai

08/12/21 • 28 min

The Politburo meets to decide whether the leadership’s overall policy was wrong, or whether all the cadres carrying out the policy are just bad.
Further reading:
Marcia Ristaino, China’s Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928
Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist PartyChang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes)
Some names from this episode:
Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party until summer 1927
Qu Qiubai, Top leader of Communist Party beginning in the summer of 1927
Zhang Guotao, Leading Communist
Li Lisan, Leading Communist
Tan Pingshan, Leading Communist expelled for the failure of the Nanchang Uprising
Zhou Enlai, Leading Communist

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08/12/21 • 28 min

People's History of Ideas Podcast - Summing Up Failures, or Playing the Blame Game? The November 1927 Politburo Meeting in Shanghai

Transcript

Welcome to episode 72 of the People’s History of Ideas Podcast.

Last episode, we discussed the end of the Southern Expedition of the Communist forces that had participated in the August 1, 1927 Nanchang Uprising and which were shattered on October 1 in a battle at Tangkeng in Guangdong province, near the cities of Shantou and Chaozhou. The Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprisings, which, aside from last episode, we discussed in episodes 55 through 61, had been the first Commu

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