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Title: Mao Zedong


1
Mao Zedong
  • The Comintern Connection
  • 1919 -1927

2
The Origin of the CCP
  • CCP idea originated Moscow 1919
  • Involvement hidden but active until 1949
  • January 1920 Soviets territory and opened
    overland link
  • April 1920 Grigori Voitinsky sent to China

3
Maos position
  • Maos position on revolution fundamentally
    different to Cominterns
  • Comintern Leninist position
  • Mao only 2 Chinese population urban working
    class, peasantry over 90

4
The Lukewarm Communist cf. Jung Chang and Jon
Halliday
  • Differences with party line
  • Mao local CCP party boss Hunan in early 1920s
  • July 1922 dropped from Partys 2nd Congress
  • Moscow ordered CCP members to join Guomindang
  • Pragmatism of Mao shows here

5
Mao and the GMD
  • Mao very active in GMD
  • One of 16 alternate members in the Central
    Executive Committee
  • Mao helped form Hunan Nationalist branch
  • Seldom attended meetings of CCP
  • Mao fired from his position, returned Shaoshan
    Feb 1925

6
Rise in the Guomindong
  • 1925 Sun Yatsen died
  • Chiang Kai Shek replaced him
  • Given key jobs by Nationalist chief (Wang
    Ching-Wei rival to Chiang)
  • February 1926 head of peasant training centre
  • Proposals rejected by 5th Party Congress 1927

7
End of Alliance
  • Relationship CCP and GMD worsened
  • August 1927 CCP instigated urban uprising
    Nanchang
  • Autumn Harvest Uprising
  • Mao escaped and led followers to mountains of
    Jiangxi Province
  • Mao in Wuhan 1927
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