TY - BOOK ID - 78496957 TI - Revolutions as organizational change PY - 2015 SN - 988831369X 9789888313693 9789888208395 988820839X PB - Hong Kong DB - UniCat KW - Peasants KW - Revolutions KW - Peasantry KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang. KW - Zhong guo gong chan dang KW - Chung-kuo kung chʻan tang KW - Chūgoku Kyōsantō KW - Chungguk Kongsandang KW - 中国共产党 KW - 中國共產黨 KW - КПК KW - KPK KW - Komunistická strana Číny KW - Komunistička partija Kine KW - Communist Party of China KW - Chinese Communist Party KW - Communist Party (China) KW - Gong chan dang (China) KW - 共产党 (China) KW - Коммунистическая партия Китая KW - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Kitai︠a︡ KW - Shina Kyōsantō KW - Китайска комунистическа партия KW - Kitaĭska komunisticheska partii︠a︡ KW - Partido Comunista de China KW - PCCh KW - Parti communiste chinois KW - CCP KW - Partito comunista cinese KW - KPCh KW - Kommunistische Partei Chinas KW - К.П.К. KW - K.P.K. KW - CPC KW - C.C.P. KW - Partia Komuniste të Kinës KW - Đảng cộng sản Trung quốc KW - Zhong gong KW - 中共 KW - Pcc KW - P.C. Chino KW - ХКН KW - KhKN KW - Хятадын Коммунист нам KW - Khi︠a︡tadyn Kommunist nam KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang KW - History. KW - Communism KW - Peasant uprisings KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang--History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78496957 AB - By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People's Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the established view that the great Chinese revolution of the twentieth century was a revolution "made" by the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP). The book begins with a puzzle presented by the two peasant revolutions. While outside mobilization by the CCP was largely absent in Hunan, peasant revolutionary behaviors were spontaneous and radical. In Jiangxi, however, despite intense mobilization by the CCP, peasants remained passive and conservative. This study seeks to resolve the puzzle by examining the roles of communal cooperative institutions in the making of peasant revolutions. Historically, peasant communities in many parts of the world were regulated by powerful cooperative institutions to confront environmental challenges. This book argues that different communal organizational principles affect peasants' perceptions of the legitimacy of their communal orders. Agrarian rebellions can be caused by peasants' attempts to restructure unjust and illegitimate communal organizational orders, while legitimate communal organizational orders can powerfully constrain the mobilization by outside revolutionary agents such as the CCP. ER -