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Moscow Sun Yat-sen University

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University in Soviet Union

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Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school which operated from 1925 to 1930 in the city of Moscow, Russia, then the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that was split off from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Its relationship to the Comintern's International Liaison Department (Russian acronym "OMS") remains unclear.

In the beginning each Sun Yat-sen University adopted a statism educational model (中山大學模式).

It was also called the Communist Workers' University of China (, KUTK).

Origins

In 1923, Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the KMT, made political overtures to the CCP and the Soviet Union. Sun believed that the KMT needed to train more Chinese revolutionaries. Of all urges only Lenin delivered military and training aids.

Sun Yat-sen University officially began its classes on 7 November 1925, the eighth anniversary of the October Revolution. The university was set up by splitting the Chinese department from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, which had about 100 Chinese students enrolled. The university was named after Sun out of respect for his contribution to the 1911 Revolution.

Located at No. 16 Volkhonka Street, in an old and beautiful part of Moscow, about a thirty-minute walk from the Kremlin. In Tsarist Russia the main university building, built in the early 19th century, had been Moscow's First Provincial High School.

Adam Lindner (1902–58; alias Xia Dalin) and Mikhail Borodin, Comintern advisors sent to China, directed the first enrollment of students. These students were elites chosen from the membership of both the CCP and KMT. The main missions of this university were to educate students in Marxism and Leninism, as well as training cadres for mass movement as qualified Bolsheviks.

Coursework

The courses given at the university focused on the basic theories of Marxism and Leninism. Students also learned methods of mobilization and propaganda, as well as theoretical and practical military instruction.

In addition to courses, there were regular presentations on the international communist movements and the Chinese Communist Revolution by prominent members from Comintern, the Soviet Union and the CCP. Those included Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Zhang Guotao and Xiang Zhongfa.

Although the Sun Yat-sen University of Moscow existed for just over five years, it produced many graduates who became highly influential figures in Chinese politics. Among them were former President of the Republic of China Chiang Ching-kuo, former Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Deng Xiaoping, former Vice Presidents of the People's Republic of China Ulanhu and Dong Biwu, former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Ye Jianying, former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Lin Boqu, and former Minister of the Interior of the Republic of China Ku Cheng-kang, all of whom studied at this institution.

Political change and closure

Sheng Zhongliang.* Moscow Sun Yat-sen University and Chinese Revolution*

References

Gao, J.Z.. (2009). "Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949)". Scarecrow Press.
Wen-Hsin Yeh, ''The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937''. Harvard University Asia Center (November 15, 2000). p.173-176.
Rønning, Ole Martin. (2020-03-31). "The Russian Revolutions of 1917". Academic Studies Press.
Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow: 1935-1930. Min-ling L. Yu. Department of History, New York University. January 1995. Page 21. UMI: 9528545
Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow: 1925-1930 Min-ling L. Yu. Department of History, New York University. January 1995. Page 17. UMI: 9528545
Lohner, Henry; Prip-Møller, Johanne; ''Buddhistsiche Tempel in China;'' Norderstedt 2017, Band II, S. 578; {{ISBN. 978-3-7448-7273-7.

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