Li Dazhao

Lǐ Dazhao (Chinese李大钊, Pinyin lǐ Dazhao; born October 28, 1889 in the area of Laoting, Hebei Province, † April 28, 1927 ) was a Chinese politician Marxist orientation.

Life

From a peasant family grows Li Dazhao on as an orphan under the supervision of his grandfather and goes through the usual academic career, classic basic training, then a modern middle school. At the age of 16, he also loses his grandfather and sold the modest family to study at the Beiyang college fund for Political Sciences in Tianjin. In 1913 he receives his degree in political economy. He decides to continue his studies and goes for it to Japan at the Waseda University in Tokyo. Li Dazhao described himself in 1918 as Bolsheviks. He was the first who recorded the messages of the Russian party with interest and had great influence on the Peking University. He was Chen Duxius "teacher" and was instrumental to Mao Zedong, who was at that time auxiliary librarian. Li played a huge role in terms of the theoretical development of the May Fourth Movement and its consequences. In response to Yuan Shikai's attempt to appoint as emperor of China, he responded by founding a Chinese study society. It is a first book published by him in which he criticized Yuan Shikai and the aspirations of Japan, to influence China's domestic politics. Since he consequently neglected his studies, it comes in 1916 its deregistration. He was in 1918 librarian at Peking University and supervisor of Mao, actively participated in the May Fourth movement in part, in 1920 he was promoted to professor and secretary of the University Chancellor, took a teaching and lectured on Marx's major work "Das Kapital". As a professor he carries further to the spread of communist ideas by organizing study circles devoted to Marxism. Then Li Dazhao returns to China, takes a job as a secretary of a leader of the Progressive Party of, is chief editor of the party organ and is thus for the promotion of a democratic form of government a. At the organization of the movement to the May Fourth in 1919, he is heavily involved, as well as in the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921. Having co-founded in 1921 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ), he traveled on the occasion of the 5th Congress of KominternKomintern 1924 after Moscow and accepted a professorship at the city's eastern university. Thus, the first confrontation offing with the Marxist theories. During the civil war in China, he is forced to take refuge in the embassy of the Soviet Union as a result of renewed criticism of Japan. During a raid by police Warlord Zhang Zuo-lin Li Dazhao is arrested there on April 6, 1927, hanged on the 28th of the same month.

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