The Study Of The Working Strategy Of CPC And Youth League On Students In Guangdong Region During The First Great Revolution Period

Modern students who mounted on the stage of history as the image of anti-feudal autocracy were the historical production of modern China. They played a crucial role in the early revolution activities led by Sun Yat-sen. Political party and young students have found each other since the May-Fourth Movement. Young students owned considerable power in politics and they also have their weakness, which left political party the necessity as well as the possibility to win the support from them. Young students were also played a significant role in the foundation of CPC and Youth League as well as their early social movement. The political work towards students was the starting point of Party and Youth League to lead on their revolution, which was also regarded as the springboard to embark on the labor and the peasant movement.Guangdong was one of the earliest regions which CPC and Youth League were founded.The May-Fourth Movement in Guangdong have prepared the ideological basis and the talent reserve to the CPC and Youth League. In the Chinese Great Revolution and under the background of the first KMT- Communist Cooperation, Guangdong CPC and Youth League decided to found New Student Club as a peripheral organization of Youth League to undertake students work, which was also determined by the revolutionary situation in Guangdong, the strategic adjustment of the Party, as well as the condition of Guangdong students movement. To mobilize students to join in the National Revolution, guide students to peasants and workers, and recruit comrades among the progressive students comprised the political objectives of Guangdong CPC and Youth League during the Great Revolution period. Guangdong CPC andYouth League took use of the idea of setting a group consists of comrades in the peripheral organization, which constituted their leading strategy towards students work. The orientation of their propaganda was focused on the achievement of unity in action rather than the unity in doctrine,propagating the current affairs related contents which catered to students mentality,taking advantage of various propaganda forms like integrating the literal propaganda, the oral propaganda and the campaign propaganda. What’s more, they also possessed a series of struggle and coalition strategies, such as seeking gains for students in order to win their trust, widely combining the social power to realize their phased goal, and flexibly discerning their friends and enemies as well as integrating the struggle and the unity. Meanwhile, they also put attention to adjust these strategies in accordance with the outside situation.The strategies of Guangdong CPC and Youth League towards students work turned out to be successful in many aspects. The National Revolution process has been propelled, the literal level as well as the political and ideological consciousness of both the workers and peasants has been largely improved, and the organizations of CPC and Youth League have been enlarged. To research on the working strategy of Guangdong CPC and Youth League is extremely helpful to the students work nowadays.