num_pages: 412
description: The story of contemporary China typically dates back to Maos 1949 revolution. But in this classic work of Marxist scholarship historian Harold Isaacs uncovers how workers and peasants struggled for a different kind of revolution one built from the bottom up in the 1920s. The defeat of their heroic efforts profoundly shaped the further course of modern Chinese history. Harold Isaacs was an acclaimed Marxist historian who identified with Leon Trotskys critique of the Soviet Unions degeneration under Stalinism during the 1920s. The Tragedy  his major work is dedicated to the martyrs of the 1925-1927 revolution who fought for a truly democratic society.
language: English
title: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
publisher: Stanford University Press