Jiangxi Soviet

Jiangxi Soviet, (1931–34), independent government established by the communist leader Mao Zedong and his comrade Zhu De in Jiangxi province in southeastern China. It was from this small state within a state that Mao gained the experience in guerrilla warfare and peasant organization that he later used to accomplish the communist conquest of China in the late 1940s. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was originally an urban-oriented group of intellectuals allied with the Nationalist Party,...