Sun Yat-sen was not only a prominent democratic revolutionist,but also a great revolutionary theorist.His understanding and explorations of party politics in China evolved in response to changing political situations,rather than remaining static.In the early years of the Republic of China(ROC),Sun idealized a two-party system,but the failure of the ROC politics prompted him to revise this view and explore a theoretical model of"ruling the country by the party".After numerous setbacks and failed armed uprisings,and influenced by the Soviet Russian Revolution and Leninist ideology,Sun accelerated his thinking on the cooperation between the Kuomintang(KMT)and the Communist Party of China(CPC).He personally reorganized the KMT,establishing the KMT-CPC cooperation that laid the foundation for the subsequent vigorous national revolutionary movements.A comprehensive and systematic analysis of the origins and evolution of Sun Yat-sen's model of party politics is of great significance for understanding the particularities of the functional forms of party politics in China since modern times and the formation and implementation of the first KMT-CPC cooperation.
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