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of workers, youths, peasants, and women, promoted and supported the
reorganization of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) and the founding of the

National Revolutionary Army, and led the great anti-imperialist and
anti-feudal struggle across the country, bringing about a surge in the Great
Revolution.

In 1927, the reactionary clique within the KMT betrayed the revolution,
brutally massacring communists and other revolutionaries. Meanwhile, the
Right deviationist ideas within the Party represented by Chen Duxiu grew
into Right opportunist errors and came to dominate the Party’s leadership.

The Party and the people were unable to mount an effective resistance,
resulting in a disastrous defeat for the Great Revolution under the surprise
attack of a powerful enemy.

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Party realized in light of
harsh realities that without revolutionary armed forces, it would be
impossible to defeat armed counter-revolutionaries, win the Chinese

revolution, and thus change the fate of the Chinese people and the Chinese
nation. The Party would need to fight armed counter-revolution with armed
revolution.

The Nanchang Uprising of 1927 fired the opening shot of armed
resistance against KMT reactionaries. This marked the start of the Communist
Party of China’s journey to lead the revolutionary struggle independently,

build the people’s armed forces, and seize state power by force. Soon
afterwards, the policy of carrying out agrarian revolution and organizing
armed uprisings was established at the August 7th Meeting. The Party led the
Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Guangzhou Uprising, and uprisings in many
other areas. Due to the great disparity in strength between the enemy forces

and our own, most of these uprisings ended in failure. The fact of the matter
was that in view of objective conditions at the time, the Chinese communists
could not follow the example of Russia’s October Revolution and win
nationwide revolutionary victory by taking key cities first. The Party urgently

needed to find a revolutionary path compatible with China’s actual
conditions.

The shift from attacking big cities to advancing into rural areas was a new
starting point of decisive importance in the Chinese revolution. Led by
Comrade Mao Zedong, soldiers and civilians established the first rural
revolutionary base in the Jinggang Mountains, where the Party led the people

in overthrowing local despots and redistributing the land. The Gutian
Meeting of 1929 established the principles of strengthening the Party
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