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| Date | 1928-1941 |
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The Great Revolution(placeholder?), also known as the Revolutionary Era, was a time from the 1920s throughout the 1930s when much of the world entered a turbulent period of socialist revolution. This led to the expansive rise of Great Yeonbang and the Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin. Over one-hundred million are estimated to have perished, during the revolutions, civil wars, expansions, famines and more infighting afterward. By the end of this turbulent period, Great Yeonbang and the C.C.C. stood as the dual global superpowers, with few enclaves of non-communist. The world communist alliance ruled 50-60 years afterward, globalizing the world and bringing the Long Peace.
Historical Background
Alkuko Commune
In June 2nd, 1915, the Alkuko Commune was proclaimed, led by prominent socialist and anarchist revolutionaries in Asefo, Temidare Datun, Akinfaderin and Arko Sowah. The commune arose from months-long protest that had entrenched the city in a battle between the local Eku seperatist, whom were predominantly anarchist, and the Asefo-dominated Imperial Police. There were many Asefo that had joined the Eku seperatist as well, particularly after the collapse of the shortlived Monwa Rebellion, which had tried to establish a commune at the imperial capital. An uprising, led by Ugwu revolutionaries, was also put down in Ofom, this left Alkuko on it's own.
War of Thousand Colors and Calpullism
Following the Flowers and Clouds Revolution of 1909, the General-turned-Warlord Machimaleh became the president of the successive "Republican Provisional Government", "Federal Provisional Government", and finally of the "Federal Republic of Tepanecapan". But rather than an actual democracy or state, it was more a loose coalition of warlords who controlled their own private territories with no oversight possible from Machimaleh's "Central Government". This led to Machimaleh being referred by the derrogatory term of "First Among Equal [Bandits]". Despite the difficulties known by the Federalists, the Royalists were also paralyzed by internal strifes between the Absolutists and the Constitutionalists.
It was in this context of anarchy that Maxtatlon became a recognizable public figure. was the theoretician of a form of Socialism known as “Nocalli tlahtōlli”, or Calpullism. A long time political activist, classified as either socialist or anarchist, forced into illegality by both the Monarchists and the Reformists, he found refuge in the province of Yepeacac after the Revolution and promoted among the population his system of a “federation of independent communes, where lands and tools are collectivized, and where private property is abolished in favour of the right given by the labour of the workers”. It quickly proved to be extremely popular in agricultural settlements, where the new “Calpulleh” organized following Maxtatlon’s instructions started to set up Credit unions and Mutual insurances. The farmer-bandits of the regions were reorganized into fully fledged militias, the most famous of which were the "Red Jackets", "Black Vests", and the "Night Jaguars" led by the "Three Generals of Maxtatlon" : Coatzontli, Cuecuex and Quixhetlin.
The Calpullists remained a mostly rural movement, but the Three Generals' conquest of Yepeacac's urban centers during the year 1912 changed the situation, confirming their position as one of the major factions of the civil war.
All over the country, border territories between the Royalists and the Federalists rose in revolt, and publicly aligned themselves to the Calpullists. Not all of these revolts, despite the best efforts of Maxtatlon and his generals to send aids, instructors, and officers, were successfuls but the infamy and the size of the movement grew nonetheless.
Coatzontli defeated the Monarchists in 1914, and Cuecuex the Nationalists Secessionists of Yucu Dzaa and Guie Ngola in 1915. It's during this second campaign that the battle known as the "Incident of the Singers Road" took place, in which Cuecuex prevented the Federalist Warlord Teccimitzl from launching his own campaign against the Secessionists. This operation led to the Federalists resuming the fight against the Calpullists but Maxtatlon and his Three Generals managed to hold them off and counter-attack in 1919. Exhausted and disorganized, the Federalists troops were unable to stop the Calpullists and the latter reached Azcapotzalco in January 1920. To symbolically end the war, Maxtatlon created the first "“Cepan Mochicalpulleh" or "Assembly of All the Calpulleh" in the old royal capital. This Assembly then proclaimed the liberation of all that once was the Huehuetlatoloyan, and the destitution of all reactionary institutions. Major combats would continue however until 1924 as factions such as the Tlacochalco New State and other remnants of the Federalists held on to their territories or turned to banditry.