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corrected their mistakes through a long process of learning from experience and
have done much good work for the Party and the people. Under Comrade Mao
Tse-tung’s leadership they are now united with the masses of other comrades in the
Party on the basis of a common political understanding. The “Resolution on Certain
Questions in the History of Our Party” adopted by the Seventh Plenary Session of
the Sixth Central Committee in April 1945 made a detailed summing-up of the
various aspects of this erroneous line.
7
For the Right opportunism of Chang Kuo-tao, see “On Tactics Against Japanese
Imperialism”, Notes 21 and 22, pp. 175-76 of this volume.
8
The Officers’ Training Corps at Lushan was an organization set up by Chiang
Kai-shek in July 1933 on Lushan Mountain in Kiukiang, Kiangsi Province, for training
anti-Communist military cadres. Officers of Chiang Kai-shek’s armed forces were
sent there in rotation to receive fascist military and political training from German,
Italian and American instructors.
9
These new military principles largely constituted the Chiang Kai-shek gang’s
policy of “blockhouse warfare” in accordance with which it advanced gradually and
entrenched itself at every step.
10
See V. I. Lenin, “ ‘Communism’ ”, in which Lenin, criticizing the Hungarian
Communist Bela Kun, said that he “gives up the most essential thing in Marxism,
the living soul of Marxism, the concrete analysis of concrete conditions” (Collected
Works, Russ. ed., Moscow, 1950, Vol. XXXI, p. 143).
11
The First Party Congress of the Hunan-Kiangsi Border Area was held on May
20, 1928 at Maoping, Ningkang County.
12
For an explanation, see pp. 236-37 of this volume.
13
For roving rebels, see “On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party”, Notes
4 and 5, pp. 115-16 of this volume.
14
“Bandit ways” refers to plundering and looting resulting from lack of discipline,
organization and clear political direction.
15
The Long March of 25,000 li (12,500 kilometres) was made by the Red Army
from Kiangsi Province to northern Shensi Province. For further reference, see
“On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism”, Note 20, p. 175 of this volume.
16
The period after the December uprising of 1905 was defeated, in which the
revolutionary tide in Russia gradually receded. See History of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course, Chapter 3, Sections 5 and 6.
17
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was concluded between Soviet Russia and
Germany in March 1918. Confronted with obviously superior enemy forces, the revolu-
tionary forces had to make a temporary retreat in order to prevent the German
imperialists from launching an attack on the new-born Soviet Republic, which as yet
had no army of its own. The conclusion of this treaty gained time for the Soviet
Republic to consolidate the political power of the proletariat, reorganize its economy
and build up the Red Army. It enabled the proletariat to maintain its leadership over
the peasantry and build up sufficient strength to defeat the White Guards and the
armed intervention of Britain, the United States, France, Japan, Poland and other
countries in 1918-20.
18
On October 30, 1927 the peasants of the Haifeng-Lufeng area of Kwangtung
Province launched their third insurrection under the leadership of the Communist
Party of China. They occupied Haifeng and Lufeng and the surrounding area, organized
a Red Army and established the democratic political power of the workers and