Bruce A. Elleman is Associate Professor at the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College. He received a BA from UC Berkeley, and the MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. His published research includes numerous articles on the USSR's and China's secret diplomacy surrounding the Chinese Eastern Railway, Outer Mongolia, and the United Front policy. He is the author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001), Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45 (2006), and other books on Sino-Soviet relations and Chinese military and naval history.

• Introduction 1. Origin of Soviet Factional Battles over the China Question 2. Chiang Kai-shek’s 1926 Political Coup and the Formation of the United Opposition 3. The Northern Expedition and the United Front 4. Rocky Shoals Ahead - The Realignment of Forces in the United Front 5. Chiang’s April 1927 Purge and the United Front 6. The United Opposition’s Spring 1927 Campaign Against the Centrists 7. The Failure of the CCP-Left GMD Stage of the United Front Policy 8. The Final Stage is Set: Stalin Orders the Nanchang Uprising 9. The Nanchang Uprising and the CCP’s "False" Line 10. The Canton Commune and Trotsky’s Expulsion from the Bolshevik Party 11. Bukharin and the Right Opposition 12. The 1929 Sino-Soviet War and the Creation of the Stalinist State. Conclusion: China and the Victory of "Socialism in One Country". Bibliography

Bruce A. Elleman is Associate Professor at the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College. He received a BA from UC Berkeley, and the MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. His published research includes numerous articles on the USSR's and China's secret diplomacy surrounding the Chinese Eastern Railway, Outer Mongolia, and the United Front policy. He is the author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001), Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45 (2006), and other books on Sino-Soviet relations and Chinese military and naval history.

• Introduction 1. Origin of Soviet Factional Battles over the China Question 2. Chiang Kai-shek’s 1926 Political Coup and the Formation of the United Opposition 3. The Northern Expedition and the United Front 4. Rocky Shoals Ahead - The Realignment of Forces in the United Front 5. Chiang’s April 1927 Purge and the United Front 6. The United Opposition’s Spring 1927 Campaign Against the Centrists 7. The Failure of the CCP-Left GMD Stage of the United Front Policy 8. The Final Stage is Set: Stalin Orders the Nanchang Uprising 9. The Nanchang Uprising and the CCP’s "False" Line 10. The Canton Commune and Trotsky’s Expulsion from the Bolshevik Party 11. Bukharin and the Right Opposition 12. The 1929 Sino-Soviet War and the Creation of the Stalinist State. Conclusion: China and the Victory of "Socialism in One Country". Bibliography

Bruce A. Elleman is Associate Professor at the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College. He received a BA from UC Berkeley, and the MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. His published research includes numerous articles on the USSR's and China's secret diplomacy surrounding the Chinese Eastern Railway, Outer Mongolia, and the United Front policy. He is the author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001), Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45 (2006), and other books on Sino-Soviet relations and Chinese military and naval history.

• Introduction 1. Origin of Soviet Factional Battles over the China Question 2. Chiang Kai-shek’s 1926 Political Coup and the Formation of the United Opposition 3. The Northern Expedition and the United Front 4. Rocky Shoals Ahead - The Realignment of Forces in the United Front 5. Chiang’s April 1927 Purge and the United Front 6. The United Opposition’s Spring 1927 Campaign Against the Centrists 7. The Failure of the CCP-Left GMD Stage of the United Front Policy 8. The Final Stage is Set: Stalin Orders the Nanchang Uprising 9. The Nanchang Uprising and the CCP’s "False" Line 10. The Canton Commune and Trotsky’s Expulsion from the Bolshevik Party 11. Bukharin and the Right Opposition 12. The 1929 Sino-Soviet War and the Creation of the Stalinist State. Conclusion: China and the Victory of "Socialism in One Country". Bibliography