Tens of millions of impoverished peasants and craftsmen had for decades lived under a regime of misery, oppression and humiliation which became every day more unpedrabie They revolted many times, from the rebellion of Tall-Ping to that of the Boxers, from the revolution of 1911 to that of 1925-27. But there possible political outcome to these uprisings until the development of a working class sufficiently powerful to contest the political and ional leadership of the agrarian revolution.
Breaking the stranglehold of imperialism, modernising the country, freeing the peasantry from the grip of the anCowAers ano moneylenders only made possiole by ine establishment of proletarian leadership inside the Chinese revolution, the transformation of the bourgeois democratic revolution into a socialist one, and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Tragic The second Chinese ended in a tragic defeat in because Stalin compelled the voung Communist Party to subordinate itself politically to the bourgeois Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek.
The third Chinese revolution was victorious because. eous manifestoes such as the 'New Democracy', Mao refused in practice to subordinate the People's Liberation which arose out anti-Japanese guerilla struggle - to Chiang government with the bourgeoisie. The third Chinese revolution ended in the revolution 1927 in spite of erronKai-shek and of a coalition