《星星之火,可以燎原》版本研究

A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire Edition Research

《星星之火,可以燎原》一文,源于1930年1月5日毛泽东在福建古田给红四军第一纵队司令员林彪的一封回信,是毛泽东在土地革命战争时期关于中国革命道路理论的代表著作之一。此信于1941年12月首次公开发表。后来由于主客观形势发生了变化,中华人民共和国成立以后,毛泽东对这篇文章进行了修改,将其收入人民出版社1951年版《毛泽东选集》第1卷。研究《星星之火,可以燎原》版本修改的过程、文本内容的异同等,不仅可以探寻毛泽东的思想变化过程,更有助于丰富对这段历史的认知和对中国社会发展规律的研究。

A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire originated from Mao Zedong’s reply to Lin Biao, commander of the first column of the Fourth Red Army, in Gutian, Fujian province on January 5, 1930. It is one of Mao Zedong’s representative works on China’s revolutionary road theory during the agrarian Revolutionary War. The letter was first published in December 1941. Later, due to changes in the subjective and objective situation, after the founding of The People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong revised this article and included it in the People’s Publishing House, 1951 edition of Selected Works of Mao Zedong Volume 1. The revised article has great changes in many aspects, such as the number of words, paragraphs and the understanding of revolutionary objects. The study of the revision process of the version of A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire and the similarities and differences of the text contents can not only explore the process of Mao Zedong’s thought change, but also help to enrich the cognition of this period of history and the study of the law of social development in China.