Forging Leninism in China - Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934

Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932, as it reshaped itself by turning the local Communist movements that introduced Marxism to the countryside, becoming more violent, more hierarchical, and more militarized in the process.