Oct 21 2020 23 mins 23
The tension between maintaining the united front and mobilizing the peasants for revolution finds expression in a crucial debate over strategy at the end of 1926. Further reading: C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927 Some names from this episode: Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the Guomindang Gregory Voitinsky, Chairman of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Comintern Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party Wang Jingwei, Main leader of the Guomindang left
