September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
12h 29m
English
Attention is growing around the world on the activities of the CPC’s united front system (统战系统), which is a grouping of party and state agencies that oversee and carry out the party’s efforts to consolidate an alliance of co-opted individuals and groups. These efforts are known as united front work, and the alliance it builds is known as the United Front. United front work draws on Leninist tactics that began their life in Soviet Russia and were fine-tuned in Germany in the 1920s, as communists battled independents and social democrats for dominance on the left. The CPC credits its use of the United Front during the Chinese Civil War, when it undermined and infiltrated ...
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