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An Analysis of the '1st United Front KMT-CCP': focusing on the Fact of United Front among Political Powers

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ABSTRACT

The realization of ‘the 1st United Front KMT(Kuomintang)-CCP(Chinese Communist Party)’ reflects practicalinterests of the two main parties, the KMT and the CCP, and their direct and indirect link with the COMINTERN, which brings a triangular relationship involving the Soviet Union in the formation of the United Front. Looking at the united front in the light of an “alliance for the common interests”, as the conceptualizing of an “united front” generally entails, real intentions of the respective parties could be understood as following. The KMT collaborated with the CCP as it needed the Soviet aid, though its rhetoric focused on the completion of people’s revolution by uniting the anti-warlords force. The CCP’s rhetoric shared that of the KMT, but aimed at securing its political base, which had not yet been consolidated, and expanding its force through facilitating the workers and farmers revolutionary movement for the cause of construction the Communist State. The COMINTERN (the Soviet Union), on the other hand, intended to support the Chinese revolution to rally its ally force and to minimize the besiegement and attack of the capitalist world in order to buy time to strengthen their capacity to instigate the World Revolution.

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