Smith, Steve A., “Workers, the Intelligentsia and Marxist Parties: St. Petersburg, 1895-1917 and Shanghai, 1921-1927” (1996)

Title : “Workers, the Intelligentsia and Marxist Parties: St. Petersburg, 1895-1917 and Shanghai, 1921-1927”

Author(s) : Smith, Steve A.

Year : 1996

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : political;labor

Journal : International Review of Social History

Volume : 41

Number : 1

Start page : 1

End page : 56

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : In prerevolutionary Russia considerable tension existed between workers and intellectuals in the Bolshevik Party, which continued even after workers attained leadership. in contrast, Communist workers in prerevolutionary China continued to acquiesce to the leadership of intellectuals in the postrevolutionary period. Cultural and historical factors such as the greater education, privileges, and theoretical orientation of the Russian intellectuals can account for the differences that caused Russian workers to distrust intellectuals more. Among the consequences of this division were that the Chinese intellectuals were attacked more bitterly by the state and the principles of the Chinese Communist Party were less representative of workers than those of the Bolshevik Party.