Research On The Farmer’s National Salvation Union In Border Area Of E And Yu During The Anti-Japanese War

In1937, the Japanese militarists launched a brutal war of aggression against China. When the nation was facing an unprecedented national crisis, Chinese Communist Party (CPC) and the Kuomintang buried the hatchet and worded together, established the Anti-Japanese National Union. The CPC adhered to a comprehensive line of the war. Created many Anti-Japanese Bases. Border Area of E and Yu was the consequence of this situation. The crazy aggression of Japanese sparked widespread resistance to all sectors in Border Area of E and Yu, some anti-Japanese forces combined spontaneously, which called Anti-Japanese Decimvir and Jhongyong Corps. With the restoration and development of the CPC in the Border Area of E and Yu, the leaders of CCCPC acutely perceived the needs of the people of the anti-Japanese. They took the opportunity transformed these scattered anti-Japanese forces into farmers, workers and other national salvations in the occupational characteristics. The Farmer’s National Salvation Union insisted to help the military struggle against the enemy as their main strategic direction, at the same time, they took some measures to promote the modernization of the local political democratization, the development of the local economy, the development of the social progress in rural areas. The Farmer’s National Salvation Union is a new kind of anti-Japanese grassroots organizations which was under the lead of CPC. There were many connections between The Farmer’s National Salvation Union and other political, economic or military organizations. All of them worked together to save the nation from the aggressor. The Farmer’s National Salvation Union in the Border Area of E and Yu made the contribution to the final victory of Anti-Japanese War. But the development of it was not smooth sailing. There were many factors, including the problems of the CPC members’ work style; farmer’s own consciousness was not high enough, the custom or tradition’s influence, and the obstruction of the Japanese or Kuomintang diehards. In order to mobilize the overwhelming majority of farmers, the CPC put the Anti-Japanese war and improve people’s lives at the same position, combined the resistance of invasion with promotion of the social. Correctly handle the relationship between ethnic and class contradictions. At the guide of this policy, CPC fight for the farmers’interest. So that farmers got tangible benefits from the struggle. At the same time, they transformed the local elites relatively successful. Many local activists were promoted to the new elite. With the help of the Farmer’s National Salvation Union, CPC successfully mobilized the conservative peasants in rural China, won the victory of the Chinese revolution finally.