Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What's Happening in Dongu a and Wut?
Three months after meeting in february, they discover members of the so called a b cleek. A b stands for anti bolshevik. The tension between these groups becomes palpable. And it develops very slowly and people like lewen lynn seem quite oblivious to it at first. They think, well, the goman dong really is infiltrating the communist party by sending these a b clek people in there. It's one of these situations where if you don't accuse somebody else of being in the a b cliq, you're likely to be accused of being in an a b clik. In the red army itself, the armies turn on some of their own people
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