Title: Introduction Soviet Advisers with the Kuominchun, 1925-1926: A Documentary Study
Abstract: In July 1926, the National Government's strategy for the Northern Expedition called for the National Revolutionary Army to occupy Honan and the Wuhan cities and then effect a juncture with the Kuominchun. By then, Soviet Russia had been aiding the Kuominchun with advisers and arms for more than a year. In the spring of 1925 a group of Russians began working with the First Kuominchun led by the "Christian General" Feng Yü-hsiang, while Soviet supplies were sent via Outer Mongolia to his headquarters at Chang-chia-k'o (Kalgan), Chahar. The Russians attempted to strengthen the Kuominchun and to link it with the Kuomintang in the South as a means of bolstering the national revolutionary movement against imperialism and militarism. More than in South China, however, their revolutionary aims in the North coincided with national self-interest. By aiding Feng they sought to weaken his arch rival, Chang Tso-lin, the Manchuria warlord who had repeatedly thwarted Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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