Sep 02 2020 21 mins 38
Tensions come to a head between Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and General Kuibyshev, as a Soviet plot backfires spectacularly. Further Reading: C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Wu Tien-wei, “Chiang Kai-shek's March Twentieth Coup d'Etat of 1926” Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 Some names from this episode: Mikhail Borodin, Comintern agent and head of Soviet mission to aid the Guomindang Wang Jingwei, Leader of Guomindang government in Guangdong in late 1925 and early 1926 Dai Jitao, Right-wing Guomindang ideologue Nikolay Kuibyshev, Soviet general and head of military mission in Guangdong in late 1925 and early 1926 Victor Rogachev, Soviet general and adviser to Chiang Kai-shek Li Zhilong, Communist in Guomindang navy Hu Hanmin, Leader of Guomindang right-wing, spent a period of exile in the USSR Andrei Bubnov, Headed Soviet military inspection mission to China General V. A. Stepanov, Headed Soviet military mission after Kuibyshev left and before Blyukher returned Vasily Blyukher, Soviet general whose return was requested by Chiang Kai-shek Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party
