Friends Close, Enemies Closer: The United Front in Action

As both the Guomindang and the Communist Party benefit from their collaboration, tensions build. Further reading: Tony Saich, The Origins of the First United Front in China Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 Alexander Pantsov, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927 C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Arif Dirlik, “Mass Movements and the Left Kuomintang” Some names from...