On November 7, 1931, on the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union helped organize a National Soviet … See more

By 1930, Deng Zihui's experiments with land reform in Minxi had been widely disseminated in Communist Party publications and … See more

The government of China, the Kuomintang (KMT), led by Chiang Kai-shek, moved against the Soviet republic, consolidating many former … See more

However, the so-called the portion of the Chinese Red Army engaged in the mobile warfare was actually the majority portion of the Communist force making a general retreat, but the bulk of this force was only a fraction of what used to be more than 140,000 men army … See more

As Marc Opper (2018) wrote,
In its drive to prevent defection to the GMD [also spelled "KMT"] and to ensure continued compliance, the CCP engaged in a widespread campaign of violence against civilians. The CCP detained those it suspected of … See more

In late September 1934, Chiang distributed his top-secret plan named "Iron Bucket Plan" to everyone in his general headquarter at Lushan (the alternative summer site to Nanchang), which detailed the final push to totally annihilate all Communist forces. … See more

1.642 million dollars of the Soviet Republic. Most of the stamps are imperforate and are printed on white newspaper-quality … See more