The decision to hold the Sixth Party Congress in Moscow, and some of the political debate inside the Communist Party of China leading up to that Congress.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930
Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party
Patricia Stranahan, Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1937
Daniel Kwan, Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement: A Study of Deng Zhongxia, 1894-1933
Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes)
E. H. Carr, Foundations of a Planned Economy, vol. 3
Organization of Communist Revolutionaries, “The CP, the Sixties, the RCP, and the Crying Need for a Communist Vanguard Party Today: Summing up a century of communist leadership, organization, strategy, and practice in the United States so that we can rise to the challenges before us”
Some names from this episode:
Qu Qiubai, Top leader of the Chinese Communist Party from the August 7, 1927 emergency meeting until the 6th Party Congress
Zhang Guotao, Leading Communist
Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party until summer 1927
Zhou Enlai, Leading Communist
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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)
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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