评陶希圣的中国社会史研究

大革命失败后中国革命向何处去的问题，引出了长达10年的中国社会性质、社会史问题的大论战。论战中陶希圣写下了大量的著作，其深度是当时绝大多数人不能比的，提出的看法直到今天仍能给人以启示。20世纪80年代以来，大陆学术界对本次社会史论战开展评论，不少人从陶希圣反对共产党的政治主张出发，认为他的社会史观点经常改变，所论也不符合中国历史的实际。我们认为这种评价政治倾向重于学术研究，又缺少对于陶氏社会史研究的具体分析，其做法是有违实事求是地看待历史问题的马克思主义史学观点的。

A evaluation of Tao Xi-sheng's study of social history

After the failure of Chinese Great Revolution,the future of Chinese revolution has aroused the 10-year long debate about the nature of Chinese society and the question of soical history.With many works in this aspect which can not be replaced as far as their depth concerned,Tao xi-sheng's idea can still give people nowadays some enlightenment.Since 1980s,the academic circle in mainland has held discussions concerning the heated debate of social history.It is believed that based on his political opinion of anti-Communist Party,Tao's viewpoint of social history often changed,and thus his idea did not in accordance with the reality of Chinese history.Their political tendency outweighed academic study and general expositions outweighed specific analyses is against the methodology of Maxism.This essay is to give some specific anslyses concerning this.