Autumn Harvest Uprising

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Autumn Harvest Uprising
Part of Chinese Civil War
Planned insurrection locations by the August Seventh Conference.
Date September 7, 1927 Location Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei. Result Uprising crushed, Communists forced to retreat to the Jinggang Mountains
Belligerents
Nationalist government Nationalist Party National Revolutionary Army	Soviet Zone Communist Party Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
	Mao Zedong Li Zhen
Casualties and losses
About 390,000 Hunanese civilians were killed[1]

The Autumn Harvest Uprising was an insurrection that took place in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces of China, on September 7, 1927, led by Mao Zedong, who established a short-lived Hunan Soviet.

After initial success, the uprising was brutally put down by Kuomintang forces. Mao continued to believe in the rural strategy but concluded that it would be necessary to form a party army.^[2]