A New Communist Order in Changting (March 1929)

01/13/24 • 34 min

Looking at what Mao and Zhu De did to install a new Communist order after conquering Changting.
Further reading:
Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949Agnes Smedley, The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh [Zhu De]
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930Mao Zedong, “On New Democracy”
Some names from this episode:
Guo Fengming, bandit turned Guomindang local despot in Changting
Feng Yuxiang, warlord close to both the USA and the Soviet Union
Wang Jingwei, leader of the Guomindang left
Dai Jitao, Guomindang ideologue
Yan Xishan, warlord accused by Mao of being a running dog for the Japanese imperialists

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01/13/24 • 34 min

People's History of Ideas Podcast - A New Communist Order in Changting (March 1929)

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Welcome to episode 111 of the People’s History of Ideas Podcast.

We ended the last episode with the Red Army’s conquest of the city of Tingzhou, these days known mainly as Changting, on March 14, 1929. This was the largest city that the Communists had taken over to date. Changting had a population of tens of thousands, and served as a regional trading center, with goods coming in from the surrounding countryside to be bought and sold there. It also had some small-scale manufacturing,

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