An Analysis Of The Party Representative System Of The National Revolutionary Army (1924-1928

Upholding the absolute leadership of the Party over the military has become an unquestioned principle and discourse system today,and China’s military under the leadership of the Party began a hundred years ago.With the help of Soviet Russia and the Communist Party of China,the KMT imitated the Red Army and introduced the system of party representation and political work in order to create an army under the leadership of the KMT.With the breakdown of the first KMT cooperation,the party representative system mutated in the National Revolutionary Army after the Northern Expedition and was finally abolished with the progress of the Qing Party movement.The National Revolutionary Army became a tool for party members to fight for power and gain.After taking power,the Kuomintang also lost its advanced nature and was finally defeated in the War of Liberation by the People’s Army under the leadership of the CPC.This paper takes the party representative system of the National Revolutionary Army from 1924 to 1928 as the object of investigation,and makes a systematic investigation of it by the method of combining static and dynamic research and comparison,striving to achieve a comprehensive,clear and objective understanding and evaluation.This paper tries to discuss the success and failure of the party representative system of the National Revolutionary Army by analyzing its origin,development and evolution,operation reality and the inheritance of the party representative system of the KMT and CPC.The second chapter comprehensively discusses the background of the introduction of the party representative system,including the endogenous logic of cultural tradition,the introduction and absorption of external resources and the urgent need in practice,which jointly contributed to the initiation of the Party representative system in the Chinese army.The third chapter combs the evolution and operation reality of the party representative system in detail,and distinguishes the evolution of the system from the legal theory,text sense and fact sense.The fourth chapter analyzes the factors surrounding the abolition of the party representative system from different angles and levels,and analyzes the reasons for abolition of the party representative system in the National Revolutionary Army.The fifth chapter respectively Outlines the inheritance of the KMT and CPC military to the party representative system after the breakdown of the KMT cooperation,and makes a profound historical reflection on the historical lessons of the KMT’s violation of the original will and implementation of military dictatorship.