Until 1910, the province of Hunan was comparatively quite, but when the Qing Dynasty collapsed, it led to the Communist's Autumn Harvest revolution that started with Mao Zedong in the year 1927. Mao Zedong established a brief Hunan Soviet State in 1927 and they maintained a guerilla army in the mountain's across the Hunan soviet state till 1934. The famous Long March to bases in Shaanxi Province started under pressure from the Nationalist Kuomintang. Once the communist army departed, the second Sino Japanese war was fought by the KMT army against the Japanese. Changsha the capital of Hunan Province fell in 1944. After the Chinese Civil war the Communists returned to power in 1949. After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Hunan Province took time to adopt the reforms implemented by the former paramount leader of Deng Xiaoping. From 1966 to 1976, the province of Hunan supported the Cultural Revolution.