Editing Deng Xiaoping (section)

=== Long March ===
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{{Unreferenced section|date=November 2023}}[[File:1937 Deng Xiaoping in NRA uniform.jpg|thumb|upright|Deng Xiaoping in NRA uniform, 1937]]
Surrounded by the more powerful nationalist army, the Communists fled Jiangxi in October 1934. Thus began the epic movement that would mark a turning point in the development of Chinese communism. The evacuation was difficult because the Army of the nationalists had taken positions in all areas occupied by the Communists. Advancing through remote and mountainous terrain, some 100,000 men managed to escape Jiangxi, starting a long strategic retreat through the interior of China, which ended one year later when between 8,000 and 9,000 survivors reached the northern province of [[Shaanxi]].

During the [[Zunyi Conference]] at the beginning of the Long March, the so-called 28 Bolsheviks, led by [[Bo Gu]] and [[Wang Ming]], were ousted from power and Mao Zedong, to the dismay of the Soviet Union, became the new leader of the Chinese Communist Party. The pro-Soviet Chinese Communist Party had ended and a new rural-inspired party emerged under the leadership of Mao. Deng had once again become a leading figure in the party.

The confrontation between the two parties was temporarily interrupted, however, by the Japanese invasion, forcing the Kuomintang to form an alliance for the second time with the Communists to defend the nation against external aggression.