Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Gomandong Part of the Northern Expedition
After Sunye sen died in 19 25, tensions develop between the gomandong part of this arrangement and the chinese communist party. Cankai shak sets up his military headquarters in the city of nan chang, in jangs province, and from there, launches an expedition to shanghai. And after taking the city of shang hai, i would say, with communist port and help in that a chankashe suddenly turns on the ch Chinese communist party in april twelfth, 19 27. There were some 500 or so communist leaders who were killeda another thousand or so disappeared. It was a very violent split of what had been a united front. The
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