Mao Zedong

1
Mao Zedong

• The Comintern Connection
• 1919 -1927

2
The Origin of the CCP

• CCP idea originated Moscow 1919
• Involvement hidden but active until 1949
• January 1920 Soviets territory and opened
  overland link
• April 1920 Grigori Voitinsky sent to China

3
Maos position

• Maos position on revolution fundamentally
  different to Cominterns
• Comintern Leninist position
• Mao only 2 Chinese population urban working
  class, peasantry over 90

4
The Lukewarm Communist cf. Jung Chang and Jon
Halliday

• Differences with party line
• Mao local CCP party boss Hunan in early 1920s
• July 1922 dropped from Partys 2nd Congress
• Moscow ordered CCP members to join Guomindang
• Pragmatism of Mao shows here

5
Mao and the GMD

• Mao very active in GMD
• One of 16 alternate members in the Central
  Executive Committee
• Mao helped form Hunan Nationalist branch
• Seldom attended meetings of CCP
• Mao fired from his position, returned Shaoshan
  Feb 1925

6
Rise in the Guomindong

• 1925 Sun Yatsen died
• Chiang Kai Shek replaced him
• Given key jobs by Nationalist chief (Wang
  Ching-Wei rival to Chiang)
• February 1926 head of peasant training centre
• Proposals rejected by 5th Party Congress 1927

7
End of Alliance

• Relationship CCP and GMD worsened
• August 1927 CCP instigated urban uprising
  Nanchang
• Autumn Harvest Uprising
• Mao escaped and led followers to mountains of
  Jiangxi Province

• Mao in Wuhan 1927