| Since the main force of Red Army began the long march,some local cadres and remaining troops in Soviet areas who did not participate in the long march lost contact with the party gradually. After the People’s Republic of China established its regime in 1949, these groups became "Soviet veterans". This article investigates local Soviet veterans in southwest region of Jiangxi, and attempts to probe the political living conditions of this special group in New China.After the PRC established its regime, how to properly identify and resettle Soviet veterans is a problem that the new regime must deal with. In the local reconstruction process, southward cadres of new liberated areas had to rely on local cadres who were familiar with local customs. Many Soviet cadres were appointed and promoted. With the emergence and intensification of contradictions between southward cadres and Soviet veterans, and the rise and cultivation of new young cadres, Soviet veterans were increasingly marginalized, which was partly due to their problem of complex political history, as well as their physical condition and other aspects of the cultural level. Soviet veterans were being suppressed and expelled, which disturbed the local social order and also hampered the implementation of many policies of the CPC.Both the Central leaders and Jiangxi provincial and prefectural-level leaderswho had experienced the revolutionwanted to relocateformer partners properly. It was an appeasement and reward for their old comrades, anda recognition and affirmation of the Soviet revolution which contributed to the Chinese revolution. Meanwhile, it was a reconfirmation of revolutionary credentials and new identity of political leaders. Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee had taken many measures to solve Soviet veterans’work, party and life problems, whichcontributed to complete the reconstruction of the local order in Soviet regions, as well as reshape the revolutionary tradition. |
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