Mao in 1926: War in Hunan, Coup in Guangzhou, Polemicizing for the Peasant Movement

Mao's political activity and intellectual development during the first nine months of 1926.Further Reading:Gerald Berkley, “The Canton Peasant Movement Training Institute”Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927Yokoyama Suguru, “The Peasant Movement in Hunan”Philip C. C. Huang, “Mao Tse-Tung and the Middle Peasants, 1925-1928”Angus McDonald, “The Hunan Peasant Movement Its Urban Origins”Some names from this episode:Shen Yanbing (Mao Dun), Communist writer and later Culture Minister, in 1926 worked with Mao Zedong in Guomindang propaganda departmentZhao Hengti, Dominant warlord in HunanTang Shengzhi, Subordinate of Zhao who allied with the Guomindang and displaced ZhaoWu Peifu, Northern warlordNikolay Kuibyshev, Soviet general and head of military mission in Guangdong in late 1925 and early 1926Andrei Bubnov, Headed Soviet military inspection mission to China in early 1926Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the GuomindangPeng Pai, Communist peasant organizerSupport the show