SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN CHINA FROM THE VIEW OF THE SOVIET HISTORICAL SCIENCE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1920S Cover Image

СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ В КИТАЕ С ТОЧКИ ЗРЕНИЯ СОВЕТСКОЙ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКИ ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ 20-х ГОДОВ XX ВЕКА
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN CHINA FROM THE VIEW OF THE SOVIET HISTORICAL SCIENCE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1920S

Author(s): Olga Viktorovna Telushkina
Subject(s): Politics, History, Economy, Agriculture, Sociology, Economic history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Economic policy, Government/Political systems, Social development, Economic development, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: oriental studies; sinology; Asiatic mode of production; Comintern; discussions; agrarian history; formations; historiography;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of interaction between the concepts and discussions about the goals of the Comintern policy in China that developed since the middle of the 1920s. On the basis of the works written by the Soviet sinologists (A.Ya. Kantorovich, B.K. Radek, and E.S. Varga) and covering the specific, different from Western feudalism, pre-capitalist social system of China as an example, a tendency is revealed toward more detailed and economically substantiated approach of the Soviet historians to analysis of the past and present of China, its economy and social relations. Most participants of the analyzed discussions did not belong to the academic community. They proclaimed the method of historical materialism as the main method of research, as well as the leading role of the Marxist theory, but these discussions demonstrated that conclusions made by the participants contradicted each other. The development of Soviet sinology was preceded by the open discussion that took place in the Communist Academy in the 1920s–1930s. Despite the apparent loss of the idea of “Asian mode of production”, the adoption of which meant a special path of China’s development as an instrument of the foreign policy, the discussion continued shifting from the problems of the current policy into the area of history.

  • Issue Year: 158/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 884-893
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian