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Joseph Fewsmith’s ‘Forging Leninism in China’ provides a detailed historical analysis of how Mao Zedong and other Communist leaders adapted Soviet Leninist doctrine to the realities of Chinese politics and society. During the turbulent period from 1927 to 1934, the Chinese Communist Party underwent dramatic transformations as it struggled against the Nationalist government and internal factional disputes.
Fewsmith demonstrates how Mao emerged as a key intellectual force within the party, contributing to debates about revolutionary strategy, peasant mobilization, and party organization. The book examines the theoretical and practical innovations that would later define Chinese communism, showing how Marxist-Leninist principles were reinterpreted and applied to Chinese conditions. Through careful analysis of party documents and historical records, Fewsmith illuminates the intellectual foundations of Mao’s later rise to power and the development of Maoist ideology during these formative years.
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