Mikhail Borodin

Mikhail Markovich Borodin ( Михаил Маркович Бородин, [m ʲ ɪxɐjiɫ markəv ʲ iʧ ʲ bərad ʲ in], born Grusenberg [ Грузенберг ]; born July 9, 1884 in Janowitsch, Belarus, † May 29 1951 in Siberia) was a Russian revolutionary and a representative of the Comintern.

Life

Borodin was born into a Russian-Jewish family. In 1903, he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia. 1904-1905 he lived in exile in Bern. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1905, he went to Riga, from where he emigrated to the United States in 1906 across the UK, where he studied at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana and Chicago founded a school for political emigrants. In 1918 he returned to Russia and worked from 1919 to 1922 as an agent of the Comintern in Mexico, Turkey, Scandinavia, the USA and the UK.

From 1923 to 1927 during the First United Front of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, Borodin worked as a representative of the Comintern and political adviser to the national government in Guangzhou (Canton). After the death of the pro-Soviet Sun Yat-sen in 1925 remained Borodin consultant who now led by Chiang Kai- shek Kuomintang. After the first phase of the Northern Expedition Borodin first worked together with the Wuhan fraction of the Guomindang. When, after Chiang's smashing of the Shanghai workers the failure of the communist strategy was apparently in April 1927, Borodin traveled in July 1927, the Comintern other consultants, including MN Roy, from China from.

From 1932 to 1949 he held senior positions for the news agencies TASS and " Sovinformburo " and as editor of the English-language newspaper Moscow News.

In 1949 he was sentenced during the Stalinist persecutions against " cosmopolitanism " as an "enemy of the Soviet Union " to a prison camp and died in a Siberian labor camp two years later.