Translated from English by L. I. Golovacheva and V. Ts Golovacheva, Moscow: IV RAS; Kraft+, 2009. 320 p., ill.
The book under review is written by the famous Chinese revolutionary, Communist Party and Kuomintang party leader, journalist, high-ranking military officer and diplomat Sheng Yue (Sheng Zhongliang, 1907 - 2007). Its appearance in translation into Russian was an important event for Russian Sinology. But before touching on the specifics of the Russian-language edition, it is worth recalling that Sheng Yue's book is well known to any sinologist who studies the history of Soviet-Chinese relations, the Chinese revolution, and the activities of the Comintern in the 1920s and 1930s, as it is one of the most valuable, systematic, and reliable narratives about how the 1920s and 1930s In the 1930s, the Soviet authorities trained cadres for the Chinese Revolution.
For this purpose, in 1925, the Chinese Workers ' University (UTC) was specially created in Moscow. Sun Yat-sen, named after the leader of the Chinese Revolution, the first president of the Republic of China, founder of the National Party (Kuomintang), an active supporter of China's cooperation with the USSR in the cause of revolution and the struggle against imperialism. The university was headed by well-known Bolsheviks K. Radek, P. Myth and V. I. Weger. While studying the "science of revolution" in young Soviet Russia, students closely followed the revolutionary movement in China, participated in the party struggle, met with Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Krupskaya, Sun Yat-sen's widow, Hu Hanmin, Xiang Zhongfa, Qu Qiubo, Zhou Enlai, Zhang Guotao, Feng Yuxiang and other political leaders of the two countries. countries. A series of these famous revolutionaries seems to come to life in the pages of the book. In particular, the chapters describing Chinese students ' meetings with Stalin (p.173-182), Feng Yuxiang (p. 151-161), and Sun Yat - sen's widow (p. 162-172) are deeply impressive. Very touching are the d ...
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