Research On Political Work Of The People’s Army During The War Of Resistance Against Japan

Political work is the political superiority of the Communist Party of China aswell as the “heirloom” of the people’s army. Not long after being founded did thepeople’s army realize that political work is the lifeblood of it. To ensure theposition of the lifeblood, the people’s army was extremely mindful of it in everyhistorical period. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, based on thecentral task of the Party and the army, the objective environment of carrying outpolitical work and the concrete conditions of the object, the people’s army workedout the working content in combining science and revolution and applied flexiblemethods to make the political work alive, guarantee the Party, people andrevolution spirit of the army, consolidate the anti-Japanese national united front,ensure the final victory of the war and reveal the major historical significance.Guided by the learning of military and political work, the author madeintegral discussion about the political work of the people’s army during the War ofResistance against Japan. Traditional historiographical approaches with time asthe main line were not used in this thesis. Instead, according to historicaldocument, the elements of the army’s political work were used as the outline toinvestigate the working environment, content, method, object and effect of thearmy’s political work during the War of Resistance against Japan and based onthis, the fundamental feature and historical experience were concluded to providereference for the army’s political work in the new period. Based on this, the wholethesis was composed of the following three parts:The first part is the introduction. In this part, the significance, status,innovation and disadvantage of the thesis are pointed out.The second part includes the first five chapters. This is the main body of thethesis which includes the theoretical basis, background, main content, methods,analysis and evaluation of the political work of the people’s army during the Warof Resistance against Japan. The first chapter is about the theoretical basis of thepolitical work of the people’s army during the War of Resistance against Japanwhich discusses the theoretical premise from the philosophy foundation, theory origin and guiding ideology of it and points out the theory basis of carrying outpolitical work. The second chapter is about the historical background whichindicates the conditions of carrying out the political work in viewing the situationof the world, the country, the Party and the army to point out the workingenvironment with advantages and disadvantages. The third part is about the maincontent of the political work which discusses the four basic contents of officersand soldiers’ consistence, military and civilian’s consistence, unification of friendsand disintegration of enemies from the aspects of doing well within the armyconstruction, consolidating the united front, making solid mass basis andweakening enemies politically. The fourth chapter is the conclusion of the practicepath of the political work. The main and basic methods of the political work areillustrated by analyzing the process of carrying out the work. The fifth chapter isthe evaluation of the work in which the effect and value of the work are pointedout, the fundamental features are analyzed and the historical experience isconcluded.The third part is the final part, which is a conclusion of the thesis as well asthe enlightenment of the reality. Through a comprehensive arrangement of thepolitical work of the people’s army during the War of Resistance against Japan, itis pointed out that the way of success lies in inheriting good traditions andinsisting on keeping pace with the times and innovating. Only in this way canmilitary political work keep its vitality. This also provides the enlightenment tocarry out political work for the people’s army in the new period.