... by the Russian Revolution, which appeared to be more successful than the homegrown version in bringing change. In 1920 the student leaders formed the Comintern (Communist International). A young man named Mao Zedong led one of the Communist groups. During the 1920s the Kuomintang, an organization formed out of Sun Yat-sen's alliance, was also active and included many Communist members. Communism was ... later, Japan invaded China forcing the Kuomintang and the Communists into an uneasy alliance. At the end of the war against Japan in 1945 the alliance collapsed into civil war. Mao had c...

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