Rodger Swearingen – Paul Langer. Red Flag in Japan. International Communism in action, 1919-1951.

Contents

INTRODUCTION / EDWIN O. REISCHAUER

PART I

COMMUNISM IN IMPERIAL JAPAN

I – THE SETTING

II – BIRTH OF THE PARTY

III – DEATH AND RESURRECTION

IV – SYSTEMATIC SUPPRESSION

V – ARMED INTERLUDE

VI – REORGANIZATION FROM MOSCOW

VII – TIES W ITH AMERICA

VIII – COMMUNISM IN WARTIME JAPAN

IX – PREPARATIONS AT YENAN

PART II

COMMUNISM IN POSTWAR JAPAN

X – RESURGENCE

XI – PARTY ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

The Party Structure

Party Funds

The Communist Press

Peripheral (Front) Organizations

XII – THE LEADERS

The Big Three—Veterans of the Twenties

Leaders from the Nineteen Thirties

Lesser Leaders

XIII – THE COMMUNIST PROGRAM FOR JAPAN, 1946-1950

Political Program

Economic Demands

A Classless Utopia

XIV – THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACEFUL REVOLUTION

A Lovable Communist Party

The Meaning of Peaceful Revolution

Parliamentarian Politics

XV – MOBILIZATION OF WORKERS AND PEASANTS

Action on the Labor Front

Work Among Farmers and Fishermen

XVI – MOBILIZATION OF AUXILIARY FORCES

Enrollment of Students, Artists and Intellectuals

Recruitment of Women

Enlistment of Young People

The Training of Children

The Capture of Minority Groups

XVII – CONVERTS TO COMMUNISM—CASE STUDIES

A Government Employee

A Schoolteacher

A Civil Engineer

A Professor of Greek Philosophy

An Artist

XVIII – A NEW STAGE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER

Cominform Criticism—The T urning Point

The 1950 Thesis

Militant Obstructionism

SCAP Intervention

Propaganda for Peace and Preparations for War

XIX – FACTIONALISM

The Nature of Party Unity

The Shiga-Kamiyama Controversy

The Ko Nakanishi Case

The Main Stream Leadership and the Internationalists

XX – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Party and the Soviet Union

The Party and China

The Party and Korea

XXI – ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTION AND PROBLEMS OF INTERNAL SECURITY

Purges of Party Leaders

Ban on Communist Publications

Anti-Communist Labor Offensive

Checks on Communist Influence in Educational Institutions

The Screening of Japanese Government Employees

Communist Control Legislation

Japanese Security Agencies

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