THE CHINESE REVOLUTION SHORT MIDTERM PAPER PROMPT All students must write a paper on the topic bel ...
THE CHINESE REVOLUTION SHORT MIDTERM PAPER PROMPT All students must write a paper on the topic below. Your paper must be no fewer than 5 and no more than 7 double?spaced typewritten pages, not including the cover page (12?point Times New Roman type with full 1?inch/2.54 cm margins on all sides). Your paper is due no later than 11:59 p.m. PDT on Sunday, July 21, 2024 via the Assignments tab on Canvas. You are encouraged to discuss the material covered in class among yourselves, on the Canvas Discussion Board, for example, or in self?initiated study groups, but it is expected that your paper be your own work. Be sure to cite all direct quotations from texts using quotation marks, and be sure to provide citations for ideas taken from texts or lectures as well (even if you are not using a direct quotation). You are not permitted to read drafts of each other’s work and give feedback on it by using discussion boards such as Discord.com. You are also reminded that any use of AI in preparing your paper is strictly prohibited (even for checking spelling and grammar) and will be treated as cheating. (Please review the Addendum to the University’s Academic Integrity Policy specifically regarding AI, on pp. 5?6 of the Syllabus.) Please use the short form of citation instead of endnotes or footnotes, by indicating author’s last name, abbreviated title if we have used more than one work by that author, and page numbers in parentheses after the passage or idea being cited. For example, cite Mao, "On New Democracy" or Mao, “On Practice”, but simply Liu, pp. xx?xx (since “How to be a Good Communist” is the only work by Liu Shaoqi assigned). If it is clear from your paragraph that you are referring to Mao or Liu, you may cite the title alone. Lecture notes should be cited as "Week 3 Lecture, p. 5", and handouts should be cited by the title of the handout.) Direct quotations should be taken from the reading, not from the lecture notes (a secondary source), whenever possible, so that you can check the context and make sure that you are citing it appropriately. Since you may not use or cite sources not assigned for this class, endnotes or footnotes must not be used. Do not include a Works Cited page. If you do, you will be penalized 5 points. In order to facilitate the instructor’s “blind” grading practice, your paper must begin with a separate cover page. The cover page is the only page on which your full name should appear, together, with page numbers and your Personal ID (PID) number–but no last name—in a header at the top of each all pages following the cover page. The text of the paper should begin on the first full page following the cover page. This means that the cover page should be numbered “page 0”. Prompte Contemplate the following observations regarding the Russian Revolution: Marx and Engels had viewed the peasantry as "petty bourgeois" (petit bourgeois in French) and, onthe whole, had dismissed the peasants as an insignificant force in a proletarian socialist revolution. Vladimir I. Lenin, disillusioned by the lack of success on the part of the Russian Narodnik (populist) intelligentsia in arousing the peasants to rebel against the tsarist regime in the 19th century, initially agreed with this view. However, when confronted with Russia's actual experience ?? with a peasantry that constituted approximately 80% of its population ?? before and after the abortive 1905 Revolution, Lenin conceded that the peasants were a significant revolutionary force and that a smychka (alliance) between the proletariat and the peasantry ?? albeit a temporary one ?? would be necessary for Russia's proletarian socialist revolution to succeed. This idea of an alliance between the peasantry and the proletariat in a socialist revolution, along with his thesis regarding the need for a vanguard party that was clandestine, "steeled" and "tempered "in revolutionary theory, and uniquely equipped to bring revolutionary consciousness to the workers "from without", can be viewed as two of Lenin's most important contributions to what came to be known as Bolshevism (Marxism?Leninism) ?? a "russification" of Marxism, that is, an adaptation of Marxism to Russia. It is difficult to envisage the culmination of the revolutionary crisis in Russia in the creation of a new revolutionary order in October 1917 without the incorporation of these contributions into Bolshevik strategy. ? Germaine A. Hoston What role did the Chinese peasantry play in creating the prolonged revolutionary crisis following the 1911 political revolution that culminated in the success of the Chinese Communist Party in building a strong popular basis for its revolutionary movement in the rural base areas from the late 1920s through World War II in 1945? Your answer should include answers to the following sub?questions: 1. What was the “sinification of Marxism”? 2. What role did the party's interaction with the peasantry play in the "sinification" of Marxism ?? the adaptation of Marxism and Leninism to China ?? made by Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi? 3. Conversely, what was the significance of the party's sinification of Marxism ?? including its appeal to Chinese nationalism ?? for the role the peasantry itself played in transforming what began as a "political revolution" and prolonged political crisis (under warlordism and during the Northern Expedition) into a "revolutionary crisis" that was socio?economic in nature? (In other words, what was the relationship between the newly adapted theory of the Chinese revolution and the practical implementation of it in the CCP base areas?) Your answer must make a single sustained, coherent argument regarding the sinification of Marxism supported by copious quotations and/or citations from the primary and secondary sources assigned. Be sure to define "revolutionary crisis" (referring to the Skocpol readings) as well as the "peasantry" as a socio? economic class and cite specific events (which may include events prior to the 1911 revolution when you discuss Chinese "nationalism"). If there are no references to the readings, you will not receive a passing grade on your paper.
