People

Activity
Any Government and administration 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4 Angola state institutions 3 Vietnam state institutions 3 Communist Party of China 3 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 Korean independence movement 1

All 43 affiliations

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Angola

Angola state institutions 3 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutions 1 Sangkum 1 FUNCINPEC 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 1 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 New People's Party of Korea 1 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 2

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutions 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

Egypt

Wafd Party 1

El Salvador

Communist Party of El Salvador 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Ghana

Ghana state institutions 1 Convention People's Party (CPP) 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

India

India state institutions 1 Indian National Congress 2

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1 Korean Socialist Party (1918) 1 Korean Communist Party (Shanghai faction) 1

Mozambique

Mozambique state institutions 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 2

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutions 1 Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) 1 Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4
Position(set)
Any National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1
Citizenship
Any Korea 1
Background
Any Korea 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1
Korean independence movement National liberation and anti-colonial movements Clear all

Yi Dong-hwi

이동휘
Korean Communist Party (Shanghai faction) National liberation and anti-colonial movements Korean Empire Korea 1873–1935 ○ Died of illness

Pioneer of Korean communism who fused the Bolshevik revolution with national liberation against Japanese rule

On his deathbed he declared: 'I die without seeing the Korean revolution succeed. Comrades, you must establish a Korean Soviet Republic.'

A pioneer of Korean communism who transformed from a Korean Empire army officer into a socialist revolutionary, becoming the first to fuse Marxism with the Korean national liberation struggle. He founded the Korean Socialist Party in 1918, served as prime minister of the Korean Provisional Government where he championed armed resistance, and after breaking with Syngman Rhee led the Korean Communist Party (Shanghai faction) in pursuit of combining national liberation with class revolution.

Career timeline
  • 1895–1902Graduated from Imperial Military Academy; army major and Ganghwa garrison commander
  • 1906–1911Co-founded New People's Association; founded Bochang School; jailed in 105-Man Incident
  • 1913–1917Exiled to Primorsky Krai and Manchuria; established military academy, trained independence forces
  • 1918Founded Korean Socialist Party in Khabarovsk; chairman
  • 1919–1921Prime Minister of the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai
  • 1921Founded Korean Communist Party (Shanghai faction)
  • 1922–1935Comintern liaison; Far East Korean director of MOPR