Dream of a Red Factory

The Legacy of High Stalinism in China

By: Deborah A. Kaple

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Hardcover | 6 January 1994

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Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a powerful and absorbing account of the model of factory management and organization that the Chinese communists formulated in the 1949-1953 period. She reveals that their "new" management techniques were adapted from Soviet propaganda during the harsh period of Stalin's post-war reconstruction. The idealized Stalinist management system consisted mainly of strict Communist Party control of all aspects of workers' lives, which is the root of such strong Party control over Chinese society today. Dream of a Red Factory is a rare and revealing look at the consolidation rule in China; told through the prism of the development of new "socialist" factories and enterprises. Kaple completely counters the old myth of the "Soviet monolith" in China, and carefully reconstructs how the Chinese communists came to rely on an idealized, propagandistic version of the Soviet model instead.

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"Dream of a Red Factory is unique for its focus both on the works that the CCP translated and used (some that were little understood and about which no one in China had any experience) and upon Soviet post-WWII recovery plans that so influenced China. This book is instructive in understanding how and why Mao did what he did to China and even why China had the problems it did in engineering economic growth."--Asian Affairs "A clear, comprehensive portrait of the early days of Chinese factory management...One of the best analyses of early Chinese emulation of the Soviet model...The text shines with a clear description of the first four years of Chinese "red" factories."--China Review International "This concise book sheds startling new light on the origins of post-1949 labour relations in China...[Kaple's] findings force us to revise thoroughly our understanding of the relationship between Soviet and Chinese models of factory organization."--The China Quarterly

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List of Tables	p. xvii
Note on Transliteration	p. xix
Modern China's Stalinist Roots	p. 3
Reading the Soviet Press of 1946-1950	p. 5
The Influence of High Stalinism	p. 7
China's View of the Soviet Model	p. 9
Why High Stalinism?	p. 11
Books the Soviets Translated into Chinese, 1949-1955	p. 14
The Reality of the Soviet Management Model	p. 19
High Stalinism and the Role of the Party	p. 20
The Labor Problem in the USSR	p. 21
The Fourth Five-Year Plan: The "Stalin Plan"	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 39
Soviet Socialism in Translation	p. 41
Problems of Creating a Chinese Working Class	p. 42
Soviet Enterprise Management Means Party Primacy	p. 44
Worker Mobilization and Motivation in the Factory	p. 47
The Agitator in the Factory	p. 52
The Production Conference	p. 54
Conclusion	p. 56
Industrialization: Managing a Socialist Enterprise	p. 58
The Dual Approach to Industrial Enterprise Management	p. 59
The CCP's Industrial Management Mechanism	p. 60
Democratization of Management	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 70
Socialization: Creating a Chinese Working Class	p. 72
A New Worldview for Workers	p. 73
The Factory Mass Organizations	p. 80
Worker Socialization in the Factory	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 89
Control: Manipulating the Masses	p. 92
Mass Organizations in the Factory	p. 93
Mass Campaigns and Movements	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 106
The Triumph of High Stalinism	p. 108
The Worst of Stalinism in Translation	p. 109
Political Control over Economic Rationality	p. 110
CCP Goals: Three Explicit, One Implicit	p. 111
The Lasting Lessons of High Stalinism	p. 114
The Soviet Union and China Sign Agreements in Moscow, February 14, 1950	p. 117
Notes	p. 125
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 161
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