Breaking the Economic Iron Curtain: The 1933 Central Soviet Area's Strategic Survival
Geographical Connections Ruijin, Yepeng, Shazhouba, Jiangkou, Junmenling, Huichang, Yudu, Xingguo, Ningdu, Shicheng, Bosheng, Wantai, Gonglüe, Caolin Market. I. The Winter of Blockade: Nanjing’s ‘Zero Resources’ Strategy Starting in 1932, the Nanjing government imposed an extremely severe economic blockade on the Central Soviet Area [1]. To sever the Soviet lifeline, the Nanchang Camp of the Nationalist Military Commission promulgated the Blockade Measures in May 1933, followed by the Salt and Kerosene Monopoly Measures and the Jiangxi Grain Control Measures in August 1933 [2]. The core objective was to build a 260-km deep blockade network with 105 management offices and 1,450 inspection posts, aiming to leave the Soviet area with “not a single grain of rice or drop of water” [3]. ...