Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
The Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow (Chinese莫斯科 中山大学) was a University of Chinese revolutionaries, some of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and part of the Kuomintang (KMT ) belonged.
Origin
Began in 1923 the founder of the KMT, Sun Yat-sen, a cautious approach to the KP and the Soviet Union. Sun had recognized that the KMT, the Chinese republic could not build alone with secret societies and warlords, but more convinced revolutionaries needed. Soviet leadership and KP were received on the offer of cooperation and decided in 1925 to set up the university should honor the merits of Sun Yat-sen to the Chinese revolution bear his name.
Mikhail Borodin, detached from the Soviet side consultant, decided on the admission of the first students who came from the party elites of KP and KMT. Primary mission of the university was to teach the students in Marxism and Leninism and train future cadres of mass organizations in the Bolshevik sense. The university was opened in October 1925.
Lessons
Primarily, the foundations of Marxism and Leninism were taught. In addition, the students learned methods of mobilization and propaganda, and went through a theoretical and practical military training.
In addition to the normal events were held on topics of the international communist movement and the Chinese revolution regular lectures by prominent members of the Comintern, the Soviet leadership and the Chinese Communist Party. Among the speakers were Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Zhang Guotao and Xiang Zhongfa.
August Thalheimer held at the University in the spring of 1927 a series of lectures under the title " The modern world view ".
Political change and closure
With the rupture of the alliance between the Communist Party and the KMT in 1927, the students of Sun Yat -sen University were sent back to China. At the height of the power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, Radek was deposed and replaced by his deputy Pavel Mif, who was too ambitious to exclusively cater to the needs of the university. Mif was later deputy director of the Far Eastern Department of Comintern and played an important role in the decisions of the CCP. The influence of Mif and the University sat down by the 28 Bolsheviks nor long-continued after the takeover by the Communists in 1949.
After the failure of the alliance with the KMT, the university was closed mid-1930s.