On the People’s Nature of Judicature from the Way of Ma Xiwu’s Trial Mode

As the product of the judicial work under the leadership of the Party during the Chinese revolution, the Ma Xiwu’s Trial Mode is a creative contribution of the Chinese Communists to the judicial work, bearing the spiritual core of the red judicial culture of the People’s Republic of China, focusing on investigation and research, facilitating the mass litigation and solving disputes on the spot. Under the background of socialism with Chinese characteristics stepping into a new era, people’s judicature is the essential feature of socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics. The core connotation of people’s judicature is reflected in Ma Xiwu’s judicial stand of people-centered, judicial idea of justice as the core, working principle of insisting on the dialectical unity of people’s nature and impartiality of judicature and evaluation standard of reflecting public opinion.

“Ladies and sorvants”: about two “Chinese texts” of Russian literature

After the Civil War, Harbin became the “capital” of the Russian emigration in China, the source of the salutary memory, which made it possible to revive Russian culture in the memory. The “Chinese mind” brought mythologemes of space and chaos into the poetry of the Far East abroad. Their interaction with the event plan of consciousness has created a set of stable motive-figurative and semantic dominants. The Harbin myth as a utopian myth about the re-creation of pre-revolutionary Russia in a Chinese city has become a semantic invariant of the first “Chinese text”. Second, the Soviet “Chinese text” is accompanied by a “drunken” discourse, a discourse of inspiration and obsession, presenting the Chinese revolution as a sacred process of cleansing from violence and colonialism.

ARON FRENKEL. THE FATE OF THE ROSTOV REVOLUTIONARY: FROM THE REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR ON THE DON TO THE CHINESE REVOLUTION AND STALIN'S TERROR

The article highlights the political biography of the Don Bolshevik, the Bolshevik figure of the second plan A.A. Frenkel, who played a significant role during the civil war on the Don. Special attention is paid to Fren-kel's activities as part of the tragic expedition of F.G. Podtelkov, his work as a secretary of the Donburo of the RCP(b) - a special Bolshevik body for organizing underground work in the rear of Denikin's troops. Attention is drawn to the mediating influence of the extraordinary nature of the struggle of the Donburo of the RCP(b) with the Denikin regime on the implementation of an extremist policy of terrorist storytelling in fundamentally new conditions after the liberation of the region from the white troops. An attempt to explain his rejection of the cruel anti-Cossack policy and the subsequent conflict with the majority of the Donburo is made. His party work after the Civil War is covered. Contributing to the strengthening of the Stalinist-Bolshevik regime, Fren-kel became its zealot and immanent victim during the period of personnel repression of the 1930s. Frenkel, as a typical Bolshevik leader at the regional level, reflected in his biography the characteristic features of Bolshevism as a unique phenomenon.

Notes from the Editors, July-August 2021

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is devoted to the New Cold War on China. What has been the view of the Chinese Revolution presented in Monthly Review in the past seven decades? How has it changed over time? As Paul A. Baran observed: "Marx and in particular Lenin being master-tacticians shifted horses and arguments as conditions changed (rightly so, to be sure!)" The question then becomes not the changing views themselves, but how these shifts in perspective reflect changing historical circumstances.

Between tradition and modernity: Emotional changes and expressions of Chinese society

This article attempts to use emotion as the core concept to explore the historical pedigree of China. Chinese culture has always attached great importance to emotion. Traditional Chinese rule was highly dependent on notions of human kindness and compassion. Since the encounter with the Western world, the Chinese revolution gave birth to a unique emotional mode, and this had a great impact on the Chinese society. Contemporary China bid farewell to the revolution and started its market-oriented reforms. An emotional mode of consumerism has become the dominant one. Based on Raymond Williams’s theory of structure of feeling, this article divides the emotional patterns in Chinese history into the traditional structure of feeling, the revolutionary structure of feeling and the consumerist structure of feeling. This does not mean a simplified analysis of history and its complex emotional patterns, but an attempt to explore the complex interaction and social consequences of these models.