The Bailu Conference: Suppressing Orders from the Party Congress and Preparing to Leave the Jinggangshan (January 1929)
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Potentially explosive guidance arrives in the Jinggangshan from the 6th Party Congress of the Communist Party, and plans are laid to break out of the enemy encirclement. Further reading: Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930 Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, “Combat Liberalism” Some names from this episode: Peng Dehuai, Guomindang colonel who was secretly a Communist and who launched an uprising in July 1928 Wang Zuo, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong Yuan Wencai, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong Wang Shouhua, President of the General Labor Union Chen Yi, Political commissar for the 28th regiment of the Fourth Red Army Long Chaoqing, secretary of the Ninggang County Committee of the Communist Party Wang Huai, secretary of the Yongxin County Committee of the Communist Party He Changgong, important Fourth Red Army cadre Support the show
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