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Mao Tells Zhou Enlai about Guerrilla Warfare

People's History of Ideas Podcast

English - May 01, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
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Previous Episode: The Party Center Attempts to Assert Control over the Red Army and Orders Mao and Zhu to Report to Shanghai

Next Episode: The Red Army Victorious: The Conquest of Several Counties in Jiangxi and Fujian in the Spring of 1929

Mao’s April 5, 1929 reply to Zhou Enlai.

Further reading:
Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930
David Apter and Tony Saich, Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic
Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party
Michael Heinrich, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work

Some names from this episode:
Zhou Enlai, head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee
Xiang Zhongfa, General secretary of the CP
Guo Fengming, bandit turned Guomindang local despot in Changting
Liu Shiyi, Guomindang commander
Ye Ting, Communist military leader
He Long, Communist military leader

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