Originally published in the early 1970s, this critical edition revisits the central themes of the book and reconsiders them in the light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.

1: Shensi Province: The Revolutionary Setting; 2: Rebels and Revolutionaries in the Northwest; 3: From Land Revolution to United Front: The Shen-Kan-Ning Soviet, 1935-1936; 4: The New Democracy in the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region, 1937-1941; 5: Crisis and the Search for a New Order; 6: The Yenan Way; Conclusion; Epilogue