The Research On Mass Work Of Shanghai City From 1949 To 1956

Since modern times, Shanghai has been seen as the aggregate of "Evil will" and "Revolutionary fortress" by the Communist Party of China when it gradually developed into the most modern city in the Far East because of the commercial prosperity.This paper aimed to study CPC as the ruling party status in the transformation process from the new democratic society to socialist society, how to carry out the united front, propaganda and organization for the masses from different social stratums, finally successfully completed the task of the new democratic revolution and realized the transition to the socialist society, and won the support of the masses of all walks in the largest urban population, the most complex social component, the most prosperous industry and commerce at the beginning of the regime building and in the field of ideological propaganda.This paper tries to clarify the three special stages of the mass work of the communist party of China in Shanghai in the early founding of the People’s Republic of China from reconstruction and rectification to consolidate through a historical perspective, and analysis the united front, the organization and propaganda of China characteristics facing on different classes of society.This will provide a a historical reference for the CPC to carry out the mass line with Chinese characteristics in the face of super city complex social stratum and social situation in contemporary.The preface points out that people become the party’s ruling foundation and fight for the object,the relationship between the party and the masses determines the regime change with people’s subject consciousness gradually awakening under the special historical background of semi colonial and semi feudal nature modern China.The first chapter discusses the origin of the mass work in Shanghai during the early days of new china. Firstly, this chapter analyzes the mass line and mass work is the combination of the Marx doctrine theory and the practice of Chinese special revolution history from the Marxist mass view perspective. Secondly, Mass work has experienced different stages of development, such as the great revolution, the agrarian revolution period, the Yanan period and the liberation war period. In different historical periods, there are differences in the background, objects and methods,which lays a foundation for the formation of the mass line theory with Chinese characteristics. Again, The urban population structure, social stratum, and the way of governance in modern Shanghai clearly reflect the characteristics of semi colonial and semi feudal in old Chinese cities.The Communist Party of China combines the theory of the mass line of Marx with the special situation of Shanghai City, establishes the direction of the development of Shanghai, and is a model of the successful application of the mass line theory of Marx to the big city.The second chapter is the analysis of the historical development stage of the mass work in the early days of Shanghai. This chapter analysis the CPC take various measures to resume production and solve various difficulties of the capitalists, staff,workers, democrats after took over Shanghai with the KMT regime collapsed,strengthen patriotism education for the masses, close party-masses relationship by the patriotic movement of the Korean War, the anti speculation movement, close party;and forge a close relationship between the party and the masses from all walks of life in the process of socialist transformation of industry and commerce, completed the task new democratic revolution and construction.The third chapter: the analysis of the communist party of China to all sectors of society, organizations and the propaganda work of united front. The Communist Party of China unite the former government agency personnel, democracy activists and businessmen, implement the united front policy, to negotiate processing various social affairs with people from all walks of life; actively organize businessmen, pro democracy activists and intellectuals, workers, neighborhood residents, the masses of all sectors of society into the new democratic revolution and construction task,successfully promote the party’s policies and guidelines, strengthen the ideological education of the social masses of social all circles.The fourth chapter analyzes the system construction of mass work. Stable propaganda and organizational work system is conducive to the consolidation of the city government. In order to change the weak propaganda work, the CPC established propaganda network system in the unit according to the actual situation industrial and commercial enterprises of Shanghai, success to carry out publicity work to the workers; At the same time, for the loose relationship between Party and the Shanghai Organization Lane between the masses, the neighborhood residents under the leadership of the Communist Party of China set up organizational autonomy with semi autonomous residents organizations in the neighborhood, Street residents committee provide a good way for the Communist Party of China to carry out ideological work and organize the masses.In the fifth chapter, the characteristics and results of the mass work in Shanghai were summarized. This paper mainly discusses the effect of mass work of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, and evaluates historical achievements from the perspective of the relationship between the ruling party and the masses during this period.