People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1 Government and administration 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Communist Party of China 1 Korean independence movement 1

All 2 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1
Position
Any National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship(set)
Any Germany 78 Hungary 55 France 45 United States 32 United Kingdom 31 Japan 22 Finland 18 Spain 16 Soviet Union 15 Italy 13 Poland 13 Greece 11 Russia 9 Yugoslavia 9 Romania 8 Estonia 6 Latvia 6 Lithuania 6 Turkey 6 Czechoslovakia 5 Mongolia 5 Ukraine 5 Austria 4 Belarus 4 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 4 Switzerland 3 Uzbekistan 3 Albania 2 Armenia 2 Bulgaria 2 Georgia 2 Korea 2 Netherlands 2 South Africa 2 Azerbaijan 1 Belgium 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 Cuba 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 India 1 Indonesia 1 Iran 1 Nicaragua 1 Peru 1 Sweden 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1
Background
Any Korea 2
Era(set)
Any

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2
Citizenship: Korea The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945 Clear all

Yi Dong-hwi

이동휘
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

Kim San

김산
Communist Party of China Chinese communism Korea Korea 1905–1938 ✕ Executed

Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang

"Even in death, I want to see Korea's independence and the victory of the socialism I have believed in all my life." — to Nym Wales in Yan'an, 1937

Kim San was an internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution. He left twenty-two interviews with American journalist Nym Wales in Yan'an that became Song of Arirang (1941), a first-person account of that struggle; in 1938 he was executed on false spy charges and rehabilitated by the CCP in 1983.

Career timeline
  • 1919Participated in March First Movement; detained by Japanese police for 3 days
  • 1921Studied in Tokyo, then moved to China
  • 1922Joined the Chinese Communist Party
  • 1923Joined Communist Youth League; published magazine Revolution
  • 1925–1927Studied at Whampoa Academy & Sun Yat-sen University; fought in Guangzhou Uprising
  • 1936Founded Alliance for Liberation of the Korean People in Shanghai; elected Korean revolutionary representative
  • 1937Lecturer at Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military Academy; interviewed by Nym Wales
  • 1938Arrested by Kang Sheng's security apparatus; executed on false espionage charges