Mao proclaims the Jiangxi Soviet

1931 · Event

Driven out of the cities, the Communists build a state in the mountains of Jiangxi — the Chinese Soviet Republic, with Mao as chairman, its own currency, land reform and a Red Army of 100,000. Chiang's five encirclement campaigns to crush it end by forcing the breakout that becomes the Long March.

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