Chinese Soviet Republic

The Chinese Soviet Republic, also translated as the Soviet Republic of China or the China Soviet Republic, and often referred to in historical literature as the Jiangxi Soviet (after its largest component territory the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet, seat of its central government), was a state established in November 1931 by the future Communist Party of China leader Mao Zedong, legendary general Zhu De and others. Its other discontiguous territories were: Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Honghu Soviet (Haifeng-Lufeng Soviet in eastern Guangdong, China's first Soviet territory, had been crushed before the declaration of the CSR and is considered more a predecessor than a constituent part). Mao Zedong was CSR State Chair and Prime Minister - at once the Head of the State and of its Government. It was from this "small state within a state" that he gained the experience in Mobile Warfare and peasant organization that he later used to accomplish the Communist conquest of China in the late 1940s. The CSR was destroyed by the Kuomintang (KMT)'s National Revolutionary Army in a series of Encirclement Campaigns.