Potentially explosive guidance arrives in the Jinggangshan from the 6th Party Congress of the Communist Party, and plans are laid to break out of the enemy encirclement.
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
Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949
Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong, “Combat Liberalism”
Some names from this episode:
Peng Dehuai, Guomindang colonel who was secretly a Communist and who launched an uprising in July 1928
Wang Zuo, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong
Yuan Wencai, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong
Wang Shouhua, President of the General Labor Union
Chen Yi, Political commissar for the 28th regiment of the Fourth Red Army
Long Chaoqing, secretary of the Ninggang County Committee of the Communist Party
Wang Huai, secretary of the Yongxin County Committee of the Communist Party
He Changgong, important Fourth Red Army cadre
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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 Base Area under Economic Blockade and Unification with the Fifth Red Army (End of 1928)
Vagrants, Mercenaries, and Rich Peasants (November 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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