Political Mobilization During The Land Revolution

The ally of National Revolution was broken down in 1927. The Communist Party lost its development area in major cities and was forced into the rural areas. And quickly by the so-called Agrarian Revolution the Party gained vast support from the peasant masses and established a dozen of guerrilla bases. An independent regime named Soviet Union founded. The peasant masses were considered as the biggest motive force of the Chinese revolution. In the political mobilization, the Party tried to wake up the emotional deep inside the farmers. In the later revolutions, the Party developed a complete emotional mobilization system which included "complaint", "accusation" and "criticism and self criticism". We can find traces of this system in many social movements later in China. In this dissertation, I try to interpret the political mobilization from the perspective of emotion-awakening and try to understand the role played by the emotion-awakening in the political mobilization and the relationship among the emotion-awakening and other facts concerning the political mobilization.I will begin with the differences of the emotion between the self-organized movement by the peasant masses and the Party-organized revolutionary movement, and then talk about the ways of emotional mobilization and control by the Party. In the process of the Agrarian Revolution, the foundation of the change is the rural organizational building and the spread of the revolutionary language. This foundation was also the background of the emotional mobilization. According to the process of the agrarian revolution, I will divide this dissertation into three parts to picture the process of emotional mobilization: insurrection, regime establishment and political re-mobilization.