How Marxism became popular among the Japanese intellectuals and masses before World War II - A historical study on the publication of Marxist literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24530213
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic doctrine/Economic thought
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	KUBO Seijiro 東北大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 博士研究員 (80400216)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	マルクス主義普及史 / マルクス経済学 / 資本論 / 共産党宣言 / 大正昭和 / 発禁 / 出版史 / マルクス主義 / 社会主義 / 検閲 / 労働学校 / 戦前 / 大正・昭和初期 / 大正・昭和
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The author studied how Marxism became popular among the Japanese intellectuals and masses, chiefly by tracing the publication history of socialistic literature. As the results, (1) I revised a reference list of over 1,800 Marxist materials and discovered some more from the scenes of academic and social movements, (2) revealed the effectiveness of the censorship by examining “Shuppan Keisatsu Hou”(reports on publication control －secret materials of the Department of the Interior Affairs), and (3) gave some consideration on the characteristics of spreading of and censoring on Marxist literature in the prewar era, as well as the issues for the future research.