First United Front

First United Front (Chinese第 一次 国共 合作) is the name for the first phase of the cooperation between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Guomindang 1923-1927.

The alliance came to mediating the Comintern, the GMD as a bourgeois-democratic - looked at party - and thus advanced by Chinese standards. Negotiations began in late 1922 under the chairmanship of Adolf Joffe. As a result, the GMD received military aid and advisors (eg Mikhail Borodin and Vasily Blucher ) from the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai- shek in 1923 sent to the Soviet Union to study the party organization of the CPSU, and founded upon his return to arrangement of Sun Yat-sen, the Whampoa Military Academy. The Chinese Communists in turn could significantly expand its influence, its membership grew from 300 (1922) to 58,000 (1927) and its cadres could occupy important positions, such as Zhou Enlai in the Whampoa Military Academy.

However, both parties saw the united front, more or less as an alliance of convenience. The alliance broke when the North Expedition of 1927 Chiang Kai- shek brought in a position to receive support from the industrialists in Shanghai and Nanjing, and to dispense with Soviet aid. The subsequent communist witch hunts several thousands CCP members to the victim. For an anti- Japan's aggressive expansion in China second united front, there was 1936.

• Chinese History
• Communist Party of China