From the Modern History of China :
Kuomintang and China Communist Party : Democratic Revolution of China
On July 1 , 1921 , with the assistance of the Communist International , the first national Congress of the CPC was held in Shanghai . 12 delegates elected by the various communist groups attended the conference . The CPC organized the working class with very serious efforts . When the first rise of the Chinese working class movement suffered a serious setback at the hands of the reactionaries , the party came to realise that the working class , instead of fighting the enemy singlehanded , must cooperate with all democratic forces and form the broadest possible alliance . The third national party congress fixed the tactics of the revolutionary united front and decided to energetically help Sun Yat-sen transform the Kuomintang into an organisation of the revolutionary united front , that is , an alliance of the working class and the other democratic forces .
The founding of the Chinese Communist Party and the laying of the foundation for the party ’ s organisational principles and programme were the most significant events in China ’ s modern history .
Everyone should understand how the CPC laid the foundations for the revolution and skillfully and creatively applied Marxism-Leninism . As a friend of the CPC , the democratic revolutionary Sun yet-Sen formulated three new principles in place of the old three principles and fought against reactionaries and for the progress of the democratic revolution . - Editor
The International and Domestic Situation from 1924 to 1927 :
The international situation from 1924 to 1927 was marked by stability in the socialist Soviet Union and temporary stability in the capitalist countries . The two kinds of stability were radically different .
Having crushed the imperialist armed intervention and the White Guard revolts , the Soviet Union entered in 1921 a period of national economic rehabilitation . By 1927 , the Soviet national economy had surpassed its pre-war level . The industrial output in 1926-27 amounted to 100.9 per cent of the pre-war level , and the agricultural output , 108.3 per cent . The national economy of the Soviet Union was developed in conformity with the policy for socialist industrialization . With her industrial output in 1926-27 constituting 38 per cent of the total output of the national economy , the Soviet Union was gradually becoming an industrialized country . That she was making rapid progress along the socialist road was shown by the fact that her socialist sector of industry accounted for 86 per cent of the December-2024
Sun Yat Sen , Mao tse Tung in 1925 total industrial output in the same period .
The increase in the strength of the Soviet Union was further indicated by the fact that the workers of all lands had cast in their lot with the Soviet Union , being firmly convinced that this was the only country in the world that was led by the working class and that the Russian working class could not only destroy the capitalist system but also build up a socialist system after it had seized state power . Another indication was the admiration felt by all the oppressed nations for the Soviet Union and their willingness to become her allies , out of the conviction that she alone could really help the liberation movement of the oppressed peoples , and find a correct solution of the problem of her national minorities .
This means that the stability of the Soviet Union rested on a sound basis and was daily becoming more consolidated .
The various capitalist countries of the world had also entered on a phase of temporary stability . During the period from 1924 to 1927 these countries recovered temporarily from their post-war economic and political crises , with their production reaching , and in some cases surpassing , the pre-war level ; the tide of the revolution was at a low ebb .
In 1926 the output of iron in the capitalist countries reached 100.5 per cent of the pre-war level ; steel , 122.6 per cent ; coal , 96.8 per cent ; and five different kinds of cereals , 110.5 per cent . But the production in a number of capitalist countries ( e . g . the United States and Japan ) developed by leaps and bounds rather than steady progress . This
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