In March 2007, Sheng Yue, one of the last surviving students of the Communist University of the Working People of China, died in Palo Alto (USA, California). Sun Yat-sen in Moscow (KUTK, before 1928 - UTK). Most Sinologists know Sheng Yue (Sheng Zhongliang, Mitskevich F. A.) as the author of memoirs about this educational institution, created, like the Wampu Military School, as a result of Sun Yat-sen's policy of rapprochement with the USSR. From 1925 to 1930, many prominent statesmen of twentieth-century China studied at the University: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Jingguo, Xiang Zhongfa, Zhang Wentian, Yang Shangkun, Ye Jianying, and others. The three rectors of the university were Karl Radek, P. Myth and V. I. Weger. Learning the "science of revolution" in young Soviet Russia, students closely followed the revolutionary movement in China, participated in the party struggle, and communicated with the political leaders of the two countries: Trotsky, Stalin, Krupskaya, Sun Yat-sen's widow Song Qingling, Hu Hanmin, Qu Qiubo, Zhang Guotao, Zhou Enlai, Marshal Feng Yuxiang, and others.
The book "Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution: personal Memories" (Kansas, 1971) was written by Sheng Yue on the basis of personal memories and testimonies of his classmates, supported by sources and research available in the West at that time. Published in the United States, where the author settled after leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, this book is both a valuable, highly objective scientific work, and a touching confession of a direct participant in the events described, shedding light on little-known pages of the past, on the fate and relationships of those people who happened to live and work in KUTK. The author himself studied and worked in the USSR from 1926 to 1932, first as a member of the CPC, and then as a candidate and member of the CPSU(b). Having thoroughly recreated the life of KUTK, Sheng Yue provides only very fragmentary ...
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