People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Any Diplomacy and international organization 1
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Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 40 Soviet Unionstate 40 Belarus state institutionsstate 5 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Belarusian Socialist Hramada 3 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Polandstate 1 Comintern 1

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Belarus

Belarus state institutionsstate 5 Belarusian Socialist Hramada 3

International organizations

Comintern 1

Poland

Polandstate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Russian White movement 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 40 Soviet Unionstate 40
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Citizenship
Any Soviet Union 1
Background(set)
Any Russia 8 Germany 3 Bulgaria 2 France 2 Ukraine 2 Belarus 1 China 1 Finland 1 Georgia 1 India 1 Japan 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Palestine 1 Poland 1 Switzerland 1
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The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1
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Mikhail Markovich Borodin

Михаил Маркович Бородин
Comintern Communism Soviet Union Belarus 1884–1951 ✕ Died in prison

Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary

When American KMT supporters warned Sun Yat-sen, asking 'Do you know that Borodin is a pseudonym? Do you know his real name — Gruzenberg?', Sun replied: 'I know. Lafayette.'

Sun Yat-sen's political advisor and the Comintern's global emissary who engineered the First United Front between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party. Born into a Jewish family, he joined the Bund at sixteen and the Bolsheviks in 1903, then after the 1905 Revolution emigrated to Chicago, where he ran a school for exiled Russian revolutionaries. In 1919 he became the first Soviet consul in Mexico and helped found the Mexican Communist Party. From 1923 in Guangzhou, he reorganized the Kuomintang into a Leninist vanguard party and established the Whampoa Military Academy. The United Front he built gave the CCP a foothold in mass politics, but it collapsed when Chiang Kai-shek purged the communists in 1927.

Career timeline
  • 1903Joins the RSDLP; Bolshevik
  • 1905–1907Revolutionary work in Riga; delegate to the 4th Party Congress in Stockholm
  • 1907–1918Exile in the United States; runs an immigrant school in Chicago
  • 1919First Soviet consul in Mexico; helps found the Mexican Communist Party
  • 1919–1922Comintern agent touring Europe and the Americas
  • 1923–1927Sun Yat-sen's political advisor; KMT reorganization, First United Front, Whampoa Academy
  • 1932–1949Editor-in-chief of Moscow News and the Soviet Information Bureau
  • 1949–1951Arrested in anti-cosmopolitan campaign; dies in Lefortovo prison