Grigori Voitinsky

Grigori Naumovich Woitinski (Russian Григорий Наумович Войтинский, real name: .. Sarchin, Russian Зархин; * 5 Apriljul / April 17 1893greg in Newel, † June 11, 1953 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician, employees of the Comintern and sinologist.

Life

Woitinski 1913 emigrated to the United States and Canada. In 1918 he returned to Soviet Russia, was a member of the Russian Communist Party and was a member of the Krasnoyarsk Soviet. He participated in the Far East and Siberia in the Civil War. He fought - especially in Omsk - against the troops of Admiral Kolchak. In May 1919, he was captured in Vladivostok and taken to the island of Sakhalin.

After his liberation in January 1920 Woitinski henceforth worked for the Comintern. He was in the Comintern apparatus responsible for the Far East and as an envoy of the Comintern ( ECCI ) operating in China. In 1920, he first met with Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, the later founders of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP), as well as with Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Kuomintang ( KMT ), together. Woitinski was present at the plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the CCP in May 1924 in October 1925 and in July 1926. From 1926 Woitinski was chairman of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Comintern in Shanghai. He participated as a representative of the Comintern at the Fourth Congress of the CCP in January 1925 in Shanghai and at the Fifth Congress of the CCP in April / May 1927 in Wuhan in part. After the break of the First United Front between the KMT and CCP 1927 Woitinski returned to the Soviet Union.

From 1929 Woitinski was director of the Pacific Institute in Moscow, conducted research in the 1930s, he taught in Moscow ( from 1935 as a professor of China Studies). From 1932 he was secretary of the Secretariat of the Pacific Profintern.

Woitinski died in 1953 during an operation.

Works

• КВЖД и политика империалистов в Китае ( The Chinese Eastern Railway and the policy of the imperialists in China). Moscow 1930.