In 1928, Leon Trotsky insisted that developments in China might well be of decisive importance for the anticipated "proletarian world revolution."2 At about that time, Karl Wittfogel, then an orthodox Marxist, was preparing an account of the revolutionary significance of the thought of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the KMT and the most readily recognized leader of the 1911 uprising that brought an end to dynastic rule in China.3 The years between 1922 and 1928 were critical to the Oriental policy of the Comintern. They were the years in which the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI) first attempted to formulate and then implement a
In 1928, Leon Trotsky insisted that developments in China might well be of decisive importance for the anticipated "proletarian world revolution."2 At about that time, Karl Wittfogel, then an orthodox Marxist, was preparing an account of the revolutionary significance of the thought of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the KMT and the most readily recognized leader of the 1911 uprising that brought an end to dynastic rule in China.3 The years between 1922 and 1928 were critical to the Oriental policy of the Comintern. They were the years in which the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI) first attempted to formulate and then implement a
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