A close reading of a couple portions of Mao’s November 25, 1928 report to the Central Committee.
Further reading:
Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927
Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949
Mao Zedong, “The Struggle in the Chingkang Mountains”
Names listed as having attended Nov. 6 meeting mentioned near the beginning of the episode:
Zhu De, Chen Yi, He Tingying, He Changgong, Yuan Wencai, Wang Zuo, Tan Zhenlin, Deng Ganyuan, Li Quefei, Chen Zhengren, Wang Zuonong, Xiao Wanxia, Liu Huixiao, Xie Chunbiao, Liu Di, Xiong Shouqi, Yang Kaiming, Cao Shuo, Deng Jiuting, Mao Zedong, Song Qiaosheng, Peng Gu, and Yuan Desheng.
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Mao Tells Zhou Enlai about Guerrilla Warfare
The Party Center Attempts to Assert Control over the Red Army and Orders Mao and Zhu to Report to Shanghai
Mao’s March 20 Letter to the Central Committee, and the 5th Red Army’s Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to April 1929)
On the Experience of the National Bourgeoisie in the New Democratic Revolution
A New Communist Order in Changting (March 1929)
Leaving Donggu, Taking Changting (February to March 1929)
From Dabodi to Donggu: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan Continues (February 1929)
Running for Their Lives: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to February 1929)
Frameworks for Thinking about Tragic Historical Shortcomings of the Socialist Experience
The End of the Sixth Congress
Clashing Communists and Comintern Guidance: The 6th Congress Gets off to a Rocky Start
Bukharin on the Nature of the Chinese Revolution in 1928
Bukharin on the Theory of the Productive Forces (and Mao’s counterpoint on New Democratic Revolution)
The ‘Third Period’ of the World Revolution: Bukharin’s Speech at the Sixth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (June 1928)
Preparations for the Sixth Party Congress (April to May 1928)
The Bailu Conference: Suppressing Orders from the Party Congress and Preparing to Leave the Jinggangshan (January 1929)
The Base Area under Economic Blockade and Unification with the Fifth Red Army (End of 1928)
Transforming, Building, and Purging the Party (September to November 1928)
Opportunism and Self-Criticism: The Jinggangshan Party Congress Resolution of October 1928
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