Military Organizations and Mass Mobilization in the Chinese Soviet Republic

Abstract

This paper concerns the military organizational techniques of the Chinese Soviet Republic, as they emerged and took shape in the Soviet area of South-Central China, whose center was Kiangsi. Attempts will be made to analyse the military organizations of the Republic and its mass mobilization techniques in the Red Army expansion campaigns. The organizational techniques of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) during the Chinese Soviet Republic were the products of its unique experience of revolutionary struggle in the Soviet area. The crippling defeat of the CCP in 1927 brought the Communist movement close to annihilation. However, the debacle had led Mao Tse-tung ,md his associates to reassess the Party's approach to war and revolution and to pave the way for a new line of the peasantry emphasizing a combination of armed insurrection and agrarian revolution.