Abbreviations
Abbreviations used in these pages include：
BDRC Biographical Dictionary of Republican China
CC Central Committee (of the Chinese Communist Party)
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CEC Central Executive Committee
CMT Communist Party International, Comintern
CPG Chinese People's Government
CPR Chinese People's Republic
CPPCC Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CYL Communist Youth League
FLP Foreign Languages Press
GPCR Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
KMT Kuomintang
NEP New Economic Plan (U.S.S.R.)
NPC National People's Congress
Orgburo Organizational Bureau of the CCP CC
PB Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
PLA People's Liberation Army
PRC People's Republic of China
SC State Council of the National People's Congress
SW Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
SYC Socialist Youth Corps
References to the author's own books are abbreviated as follows：
JTTB Journey to the Beginning
RNORC Random Notes on Red China
RSOC Red Star Over China
TOSOTR The Other Side of the River
[*]The Second All-China Soviet Congress was held in Juichin, Kiangsi, in January, 1934. See Mao Tse-tung, Red China：President Mao Tse-tung Reports……