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Amid this chaos, new political ideologies emerged. The Russian Revolution inspired some Chinese intellectuals, leading to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921, with Mao Zedong among its future leaders. Mao envisioned a Marxist-Leninist China, where land reforms and peasant support would propel revolutionary change.
Meanwhile, Sun Yat-sen’s nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) began efforts to unify China under a modern republican banner. In the mid-1920s, the KMT and CCP formed a brief United Front to combat warlord fragmentation and northern warlords' dominance. Soviet advisors supported this alliance, training armies and supplying weapons.