Jun 03 2020 23 mins 55
As both the Guomindang and the Communist Party benefit from their collaboration, tensions build. Further reading: Tony Saich, The Origins of the First United Front in China Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 Alexander Pantsov, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927 C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Arif Dirlik, “Mass Movements and the Left Kuomintang” Some names from this episode: Sun Zhongshan/Sun Yatsen, leader of the Guomindang Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the Guomindang Chen Jiongming, Southern warlord, ally and then enemy of Sun Yatsen Chiang Kai-shek, Japan-trained military officer, close confidant of Sun Yatsen Lev Karakhan, Soviet ambassador to China beginning in 1923 Gregory Chicherin, Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party
