Qiubai View Of The Soviet Union,

Qu Qiubai ("Qu" for short below) was one of the main leaders of the early Communist Party of China, a great Marxist, a proletarian revolutionary, theorist and propagandist, an important founder of the Chinese revolutionary literature.Qu was the ligament between the Chinese Communist Party and Soviet Union in 1920s, and he was also the first Chinese to be in Soviet Russia to report about this new country and the first Chinese to disseminate the Soviet revolutionary concept. The way he described Soviet Russia is lively and detailed, for he had a good knowledge about the history and the reality of the country and also he could grasp the theory and laws behind the development of Russian society. What he focused on in his collected works concerning the politics and the revolution of Russia in 1920s can be summarized in five aspects:1. The October Revolution. Qu realized the importance of the armed struggle of workers and peasants from the October Revolution's victory, and yet a strong leader was needed to lead the revolution to success. Lenin was just the great leader who functioned as the enlightenment and the spiritual symbols for the oppressed of the world. For them, the proletarian dictatorship is the key to national liberation and freedom.2. Peasantry. In the aspect of peasantry, Russia and China bore a lot of resemblance that the population of the proletariat in these two countries didn't hold a numerical superiority but the revolution in Marxism greatly depended on the proletariat. So under these circumstances, the peasantry who were also being oppressed shouldn't be ignored. Fully understanding the potential role of the peasantry and guiding them to fight together with the proletariat would be the key to win a social revolution and maintain the victory and the power.3. The New Economic Policy. War Communism, after all, was not a shortcut towards communism. However, the New Economic Policy was the measure to meet the basic interests of the people at each level when ensuring the proletarian dictatorship, which was the result of the combination of Marxism with the reality and the development of Leninism to Marxism. For other countries who wanted to imitate this policy, realize the proletarian dictatorship and develop into Communism, it was of great importance to be clear with the characteristics and nature of the New Economic Policy. 4. The struggle between the opposition coalition and Stalin. The Trotsky old opposition, the later Trotsky new opposition, and the extreme left wing and middle-of-the-roader who were also not on Stalin's side, should all be punished for their factional activities against Soviet Union Communist Party (Bolshevik).5. The struggle between Bukharin and Stalin. Bukharin disagreed with Stalin's plan to accelerate the industrialization by sacrificing the interests of the rich peasants and escalated this confrontation into factions, for which Bukharin should be punished, because Stalin is the absolute authority of the Political Bureau.Qu's introduction and analysis of the first three aspects showed certain depth and predictability, but the description of the struggles in the Soviet Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) was far from the truth due to some irresistible causes. Thus, the wrong propaganda Qu sent back to China had surely brought about some serious consequences to the Chinese people who were seeking remedy from Soviet Union to save China. However, no matter right or wrong, what this paper shows is just Qu's point of view of Soviet Union. The above mentioned five aspects constitute Qu's timely consistent but logically poorly coherent political thinking.