The Soviet Military Alliance with the Guomindang, and the Creation of the National Revolutionary Army


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The first year of the Soviet military alliance with the Guomindang, including the creation of the Whampoa Military Academy, the formation of the National Revolutionary Army, and the crushing of the Merchant Corps. Further Reading: C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 John Erickson, The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History, 1918-1941 Some names from this episode: Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the Guomindang Chiang Kai-shek, Japan-trained military officer, close confidant of Sun Yatsen Chen Jiongming, Southern warlord, ally and then enemy of Sun Yatsen Deng Zhongxia, Leading Communist labor organizer Gregory Voitinsky, Comintern representative in China at various points, much more wary of Sun Yatsen and the Guomindang than Borodin Sun Zhongshan/Sun Yatsen, leader of the Guomindang