There are many reasons for the failure of the Great Revolution, the main ones are:

1. Due to the collusion between the imperialist forces and China’s feudal warlords, compradors, and landlord classes at that time, the counter-revolutionary forces greatly exceeded the revolutionary forces.

2. Due to the right-wing Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei clique in the revolutionary camp at that time betrayed the revolution with the support of imperialism and the landlord and comprador classes, the revolutionary force suffered a huge loss immediately. The enemy was strong and we were weak. The situation is more serious.

3. Since the Communist Party of China was in its infancy and did not understand much about the laws of the Chinese revolution, especially in the late Northern Expedition, Chen Duxiu’s right-leaning surrender error took over the central leadership and gave up. The leadership of the revolution was unable to organize effective resistance when the counter-revolutionary forces launched a sudden attack on the revolutionary forces, which led to the failure of the national revolution.

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The main contents of the National Revolution:

1. Through the vigorous development of the workers' and peasants' movement, the differentiation and revolution within the warlords, Sun Yat-sen's Declaration to Go North and the National Revolution The conference movement consolidated and expanded the revolutionary base in Guangdong, and the national revolution began to rise.

2. From January 1924 to its failure in July 1927, the main contradiction in Chinese society at that time was the contradiction between the Chinese people and the Beiyang warlords who represented the interests of the imperialist feudal landlords.

The main target of the revolution is the Beiyang warlords. The main task of the revolution is to overthrow the rule of the Beiyang warlords and complete the task of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism. The nature of the revolution is a bourgeois democratic revolution.

3. In view of the huge disparity in the balance of power, the Guangzhou National Government adopted the strategic policy of concentrating superior forces and defeating them one by one during the Northern Expedition. With the active promotion and cooperation of the workers and peasants movement, the two major warlords Sun and Wu were basically eliminated and defeated. He became a warlord of the Feng clan. The revolutionary upsurge swept rapidly from south to north, from the Pearl River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin.

4. Due to the disintegration and destruction of the reactionary forces of imperialism and feudalism, the rebellion of Chiang and Wang, and the right-leaning compromise of the Chinese Communist Party, the Northern Expedition basically overthrew the Beiyang warlords.

But the Chiang Kai-shek clique emerged as an agent of Chinese and foreign reactionary forces. The nature of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society remained unchanged, the task of the democratic revolution remained unfinished, and the Great Revolution ultimately failed.

Baidu Encyclopedia-National Revolution