Jiangxi Soviet

Chinese history
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Also known as: Chiang-hsi Soviet, Chinese Soviet Republic, Kiangsi Soviet
Quick Facts
Wade-Giles romanization:
Chiang-hsi Soviet
Also called:
Kiangsi Soviet or Chinese Soviet Republic
Date:
1931 - 1934
Areas Of Involvement:
communism

Jiangxi Soviet, (1931–34), independent government established by the communist leader Mao Zedong and his comrade Zhu De in Jiangxi province in southeastern China. It was from this small state within a state that Mao gained the experience in guerrilla warfare and peasant organization that he later used to accomplish the communist conquest of China in the late 1940s. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was originally an urban-oriented group of intellectuals allied with the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), until 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) purged the communists from the KMT. At this time Mao and Zhu De, at the ...(100 of 369 words)