Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, joined the CPC in 1922 and was one of its principal leaders in the early period. After the August 7 Meeting of the Party in 1927, he became a member of the Provisional Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and took charge of the work of the provisional central leading body. He made the "Left" error of putschism, which lasted from November 1927 to April 1928. At the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, held in January 1931, he was attacked by the exponents of Wang Ming's "Left" dogmatism and pushed out of the central leading body (for Wang Ming, see note 89). In 1934 he arrived in the Central Revolutionary Base Area in Jiangxi Province and was made Commissioner of People's Education (Minister of Education) in the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China. When the main force of the Red Army began the Long March, he stayed in the South to carry on guerrilla warfare. In February 1935 he was arrested by the Kuomintang, and the following June he was executed.