How the Fourth Red Army spent their time in Donggu, and how they took the first city in the new base area in the Jiangxi-Fujian border region.
Further reading:
Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949
Agnes Smedley, The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh [Zhu De]
Joseph Fewsmith, Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934
Gao Hua, How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945
Stephen Averill, “The Origins of the Futian Incident”
Some names from this episode:
Xiao Ke, an officer in the Fourth Red Army
Peng Pai, Communist peasant organizer
Long Chaoqing, important early Communist in Jinggangshan area
Peng Dehuai, Leader of the 5th Red Army
Guo Fengming, Bandit turned Guomindang local despot in Changting
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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)
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)
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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