最近叶蠖生、罗仰申合著的“第一次国內革命战爭簡史”(上海人民出版社出版,定价0.46元),是一本中国現代革命史的通俗读物。本書对第一次国內革命战爭时期的重大历史事件作了清晰的叙述和介紹,它具有如下几方面的特点: (一) 第一次国內革命战爭时期的政治形势是比較复杂的,在这一时期中,一方面是中国共产党領导下的工农运动的高漲,人民力量的壯大,革命形势的發展;另一方面是在帝国主义操縱下各个軍閥之間的混战和国民党反动派的陰謀叛变。作者在处理这些問題时,能圍繞主要的历史事件作比較全面系統的叙述,使讀者对这一时期錯綜复杂的历史和党領导全国人民进行的艰苦斗爭有一个比較明确而深刻的印象。 (二) 作者在叙述各个历史事件的發生、發展和变化的过程中,十分注意揭露当时阶級斗爭發展中革命与反革命之間,革命內部和反革命內部的各种矛盾,因而 Recently, Ye Weisheng and Luo Yangshen co-authored the “Brief History of the First Revolutionary Civil War” (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, priced at 0.46 yuan), a popular reading of the history of modern Chinese revolution. This book provides a clear description and introduction of major historical events during the period of the first domestic revolutionary war. It has the following characteristics: (1) The political situation during the first Civil War was rather complicated, During this period, on the one hand, the upsurge of the worker-peasant movement under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the growth of the people’s power and the development of the revolutionary situation; the other hand, the belligerence between the warlords under the imperialist manipulation and the mutiny of the Kuomintang reactionaries . When dealing with these issues, the author can make a more systematic and systematic narration on major historical events and make the readers have a clearer and deeper impression of the intricate history of the time and the arduous struggle the party led the people throughout the country. (2) In describing the occurrence, development and changes of various historical events, the author paid great attention to revealing the various contradictions between the revolutions and the counter-revolutions in the development of the class struggle and in the revolutions and the counter-revolutions and thus