일제강점기 의성지역의 혁명적 대중운동

Abstract

This article summarizes the activities of revolutionary mass movements and Confucian intellectuals, such as the Korean Communist Party Reconstruction Movement and the Red Peasant Union Movement, that took place in the Uiseong area in the 1930s. Through this, we looked at their efforts to solve the national problem at the time in a new way. The Korean Socialist Movement, which began to develop in 1920, rapidly grew into a central force in the national movement and formed an organization called the Korean Communist Party in 1925. The Korean Communist Party suffered repeated collapse and reconstruction until 1928 due to large-scale repression by Japan and factional struggles among socialists, and was disbanded after a short period of activity of four years. After the disbandment of the Korean Communist Party, the greatest task assigned to Korean socialist activists in the 1930s was the reconstruction of the Korean Communist Party. It was in February 1931 when clues to the revolutionary mass movement and party reconstruction movement appeared in Uiseong. Although the rebuilding movement of the Communist Party of Korea in Uiseong ended in failure, it was like a welcome rain to this region where the roots of the national movement had been completely uprooted. In the preface 『高等警察要史』 published by the Gyeongbuk Police Department of the Japanese Government General of Korea in 1934, stated in the preface that the resistance of the people of this region was exceptionally strong and found the cause of this in the characteristics of the Toegye school of thought. As such tendencies were combined with the socialism introduced into the country around the time of the March 1st Movement, Confucian culturalism and new socialism quickly joined together to find common ground, and this served as a powerful force in the anti-Japanese struggle. In other words, the anti-Japanese ideology and the incorporation of socialism based on Confucian culturalism served as a new driving force for the anti-Japanese struggle. This phenomenon appeared more strongly than any other region in each field, including the anti-Japanese struggle, the peasant movement, the labor movement, and the youth movement in the 1920s, and it can be said to have continued with the reconstruction movement of the Communist Party of Korea and the revolutionary peasant union movement in the 1930s.