Everyone knows that Chairman Mao is the first chairman of the People's Republic of China . In fact, as early as 1931, he was the first chairman of the Soviet Republic of China. This is also the origin of the title "Chairman Mao".
So, how did Chairman Mao be elected as the first chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic that year?
The core of the Chinese Soviet Republic is the Central Soviet Area, which is the Central Revolutionary Base Area . It consists of two red base areas, , , , , , , , western Fujian, and several counties in northern Guangdong. It has an area of 84,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 4.5 million. Chairman Mao made great contributions to the creation of the Central Soviet Area.
In September 1927, Chairman Mao led the Autumn Harvest Uprising , then climbed to Jinggangshan , created Red Fourth Army , and later sent troops to southern Jiangxi to establish the southern Jiangxi Soviet Area.
After the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" victory in , the southern Jiangxi Soviet Area and the western Fujian Soviet Area were connected together, becoming the largest Soviet area in the country.
Moreover, there were already more than a dozen revolutionary bases across the country at that time, but they were all in power and urgently needed to establish a national regime to strengthen their leadership. Therefore, the Central Committee decided to establish the Chinese Soviet Republic with the Central Soviet Area as the center, with the capital set in Ruijin, Jiangxi.
Since January 1931, the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area began to prepare for the establishment of the Soviet Republic. By February, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee elected a candidate for the chairman of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, that is, Chairman Mao, and then reported to Communist International for approval.
However, Chairman Mao’s status in the party was not high at that time, and he was just an alternate member of the Politburo, with more than a dozen people ahead of him. Moreover, Chairman Mao was not popular within the party at that time, but was excluded.
At the Gannan Conference held on November 1, 1931, Chairman Mao was also criticized. For example, Chairman Mao opposed "bookism" but was accused of "narrow empiricism", which put him on the hat of "fundamental denial of Marxism-Leninist theory" and was "the backward thought of farmers."
In the land reform work, Chairman Mao proposed the principle of "drawing more and making up for less, and pulling fat and making up for thinness", which was also accused of being a "rich peasant line", and as a result, the landlords and rich peasants were pushed to the opposite of the red regime.
In the military, Chairman Mao has always advocated guerrilla tactics and achieved three great victories in the fight against encirclement and suppression. However, the central government believes that this is "guerrillaism" and ignores "position war" and "street war".
In short, the central government, led by Wang Ming and Bogu , has been excluding and weakening Chairman Mao's position within the party and the army.
For example, within the party, at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in January 1931, nine members of the Politburo were elected, none of whom did not have the name of Chairman Mao, but they were just one of the seven alternate members of the Politburo.
For example, in the army, in the Central Revolutionary Military Commission established in November 1931, the chairman was Zhu De, the vice chairman was Wang Jiaxiang and Peng Dehuai, and Chairman Mao was only one of the 15 members and had no military command power.
However, Chairman Mao’s achievements in his long-term revolutionary work are obvious to all. Whether it is the establishment and development of the Red Army or the establishment of the central revolutionary base, they are inseparable from Chairman Mao’s contributions, which no one can erase.
Therefore, even if Wang Ming has any objections to Chairman Mao, he has to consider Chairman Mao’s prestige.
Moreover, Wang Ming still knows a little about "unified front". They know that if Chairman Mao is pushed up and is the Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic without real power, it will not only appease Chairman Mao and block the mouths of comrades who support Chairman Mao, but will not pose a great threat to them. It can be said that he kills two birds with one stone.
After all, although the President of the Chinese Soviet Republic sounds very famous, his actual power is not very large. Whether within the party or the army, Chairman Mao did not have much say at that time.
Of course, Chairman Mao has never been interested in these titles. Since I am not allowed to manage the Party and the military, I will focus on doing a good job in the government, and can understand the people's sentiments more directly and serve the people better.
In the years when Chairman Mao was chairman, the Soviet Republic of China developed rapidly, especially the land reform, which achieved great results and accumulated rich experience for our party's land reform work later.
(Reference: "Chronology of Mao Zedong" and "History Chooses Mao Zedong")
