Moscow Sun Yat-sen University | |||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 莫斯科中山大學 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 莫斯科中山大学 | ||||||||
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Russian name | |||||||||
Russian | Коммунистический университет трудящихся Китая имени Сунь Ятсена | ||||||||
Romanization | Kommunisticheskij universitet trudjashhihsja Kitaja imeni Sun' Jatsena |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Mòsīkē Zhōngshān Dàxué |
Wade–Giles | Mo4-szu1-k'e1 Chung1-shan1 Ta4-hsüeh2 |
Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school, which operated from 1925-1930 in the city of Moscow, Russia then the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Its relationship to the Comintern's International Liaison Department (Russian acronym "OMS") remains unclear.
In history, were the products of one-party state, based-on the political ideology with socialism characteristics.
In 1923, Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the KMT, made political overtures to the CPC and the Soviet Union. Sun believed that the KMT needed to train more Chinese revolutionaries.
Sun Yat-sen University officially began its classes on November 7, 1925, the eighth anniversary of the October Revolution. The University was set up by splitting the Chinese department from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, which had about 100 Chinese students enrolled. The university was named after Sun out of respect for his contribution to the Chinese Revolution.
Located at No. 16 Volkhonka Street, in an old and beautiful part of Moscow, about a thirty-minute walk from the Kremlin. In Tsarist Russia the main university building, built in the early 19th century, had been Moscow First Provincial High School.
Mikhail Borodin, the consultant sent by the Soviet Union, directed the first enrollment of students. These students were elites chosen from the membership of both the CPC and KMT. The main missions of this university were to educate students in Marxism and Leninism, as well as training cadres for mass movement as qualified Bolsheviks.