Title: Moscow Sun Yat-Sen University papers
Inclusive Dates: 1927-1993

Creator:

• Universitet trudi︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ Kitai︠a︡ imeni Sunʹ I︠A︡t-Sena

CallNumber: Collection ZZG

Quantity: Photocopies of university materials and assignments, articles, books, and journals; some original copies of articles and journals1.75 Linear Feet 1 record storage carton, 1 letter document box, 1 half letter document box
Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Special Collections

Abstract:

The Moscow Sun Yat-Sen University papers include photocopies of materials used and published by the university during its years of operation, 1925-1930. This includes issues of journals and bulletins produced by the university, descriptions of assignments from the first and second year courses, and various readings and materials focusing on China, communism, and political party-building. A small section of materials from this collection are articles about Marxism in China, dated from 1977-1993.

Language: Chinese , Russian .

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The Moscow Sun Yat-sen University was a Communist International (Comintern) school located in Moscow, Russia. The school was opened in 1925 only to close five years later in 1930. Officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, the school was additionally known as the Communist Worker's University of China (KUTK). It operated as a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In 1923, Sun Yat-sen, the founder of KMT, esablished an alliance with the CCP, although it was tenuous from the beginning. This alliance, known as the First United Front, was meant to end warlordism in China, however both parties had their own goals they wanted to achieve. In cooperation with the Soviet Union, the alliance established the Moscow Sun Yat-Sen University by splitting the Chinese department from the existing Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV, also known as the Far East University). The new university was named after Sun Yat-sen as a sign of respect to his contributions to the Chinese revolution.

The school officially began classes on November 7, 1925, on the eighth anniversary of the October Revolution. Students were enrolled for 2-year course, focusing on Marxism and Leninism, as well as mobilization, propaganda, and military instruction.

In 1927, the alliance between the KMT and CCP broke, causing students from the KMT to return to China. The university continued for a few more years before closing in 1930.

The majority of this collection are materials that were published by the Moscow Sun Yat-Sen University. The university published materials that were then used during the normal course of study, such as readings and assignments. The "Collection of Assignments" cover both the first-year course and the second-year course. An additional set of assignments focused on party building are also included in this collection, with the relevant materials for those assignments. Other materials that were published by the university include a number of issues of the university's bulletin, 'Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China' and a publication, 'International Review'. Further items in the collection consist of a number of publications about communism and/or China.

Included in this this collection are a handful of journal articles about Marxism in China that are from after the closure of the university. They date from 1977 to 1993.

The materials in the collection are in Chinese, although most include a Russian translation of the title as well. Most are photocopies, although a few could be originals.

Access Restrictions

This collection includes no known access restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Collection materials may be subject to laws governing rights. Researchers are solely responsible for determining the rights status of the materials they use. Permission may be required for some uses such as publication or reproduction.

Acquisition Information

Source Unknown

Education -- RussiaCommunist education -- Soviet UnionCommunist education -- ChinaChina -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Box   1   Folder   1	International Review, "Collection of Materials on the International Situtation", issue 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   2	International Review, "Collection of Materials on the International Situtation", issue 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   3	International Review, no. 2 December 13, 1926
Box   1   Folder   4	International Review, no. 13 December 20, 1926
Box   1   Folder   5	International Review, no. 21 February 23, 1927
Box   1   Folder   6	International Review, no. 24 March 18, 1927
Box   1   Folder   7	International Review, no. 25 March 25, 1927
Box   1   Folder   8	International Review, no. 26 April 1, 1927
Box   1   Folder   9	International Review, no. 27 April 8, 1927
Box   1   Folder   10	International Review, no. 28 April 15, 1927
Box   1   Folder   11	International Review, no. 30 April 30, 1927
Box   1   Folder   12	International Review, no. 31 May 6, 1927
Box   1   Folder   13	International Review, no. 32 May 13, 1927
Box   1   Folder   14	International Review, no. 33 May 20, 1927
Box   1   Folder   15	International Review, no. 34 May 27, 1927
Box   1   Folder   16	International Review, no. 35 June 3, 1927
Box   1   Folder   17	International Review, Special Number on the Chinese Revolution June 5, 1927
Box   1   Folder   18	Special Number on the Chinese Problem, 1927
Box   1   Folder   19	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 1 January 1, 1929
Box   1   Folder   20	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 2 January 20, 1929
Box   1   Folder   21	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 4-5 February 19, 1929
Box   1   Folder   22	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 6 February 19, 1929
Box   1   Folder   23	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 38-39 December 25, 1928
Box   1   Folder   24	Bulletin of the China Research Institute of the Communist Workers' University of China, no. 40 December 31, 1928
Box   1   Folder   25	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 1 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   26	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 3 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   27	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 4 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   28	KUTK, Materials for the 4th assignment on China for Course 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   29	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 5 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   30	KUTK, Assignment no. 5 on China for Course 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   31	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 6 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   32	KUTK, Assignment no. 6 on China for Course 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   33	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 7 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   34	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 8 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   35	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 9 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   36	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 10 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   37	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 1, Notebook 11 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   38	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 1 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   39	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 2 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   40	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 3 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   41	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 4 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   42	KUTK, Additional Assignment for collection no. 4, Course 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   43	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 5 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   44	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 6 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   45	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 7 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   46	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 8 [2 copies, in Russian and Chinese] 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   47	KUTK, Collection of Assignments for the 1928-29 Academic Year, Course 2, no. 9 1928-1929
Box   1   Folder   48	Party Building, assignment no. 1 1927
Box   1   Folder   49	Party Building, assignment no. 2-3 1927
Box   1   Folder   50	Party Building, assignment no. 4 1928
Box   1   Folder   51	Party Building, assignment no. 5 1928
Box   1   Folder   52	Party Building, assignment no. 6 and the materials for it 1928
Box   1   Folder   53	Party Building, assignment no. 8 1928
Box   1   Folder   54	Materials on current issues of party building, issue 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   55	Materials on current issues of party building, issue 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   56	Material for assignment no. 2 on party building, Book 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   57	Material for assignment no. 3 on party building, issue 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   58	Material for assignment no. 3 on party building, issue 3 1928
Box   1   Folder   59	Party building, materials for assignment no. 4, issue 1 1928
Box   1   Folder   60	Party building, materials for assignment no. 4, issue 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   61	Party building, materials for assignment no. 5, issue 1 [title page only] 1929
Box   1   Folder   62	Party building, materials for assignment no. 5, issue 2 1929
Box   1   Folder   63	Party building, materials for assignment no. 6 1929
Box   1   Folder   64	Party building, materials for assignment no. 6, Subject: Communication 1929
Box   1   Folder   65	Party building, materials for assignment no. 7 1929
Box   1   Folder   66	Party building, materials for assignment no. 8 1929
Box   1   Folder   67	Party building, Some aspects of the labor issue in Canton [Guangdong], Materials for the assignment on propaganda 1928
Box   1   Folder   68	Resolutions of the plenum of the ECCI [copy 1], 1927
Box   1   Folder   69	Resolutions of the plenum of the ECCI [copy 2], 1927
Box   1   Folder   70	Resolutions of the 7th plenum of ECCI on the Chinese question [copy 1], 1927
Box   1   Folder   71	Resolutions of the 7th plenum of ECCI on the Chinese question [copy 2], 1927
Box   1   Folder   72	ECCI Resolution on the Current Moment of the Chinese Revolution, 1927
Box   1   Folder   73	Resolutions of the 9th plenum of ECCI, book 2 1928
Box   1   Folder   74	Materials of the 10th plenum of ECCI, 1929
Box   1   Folder   75	Resolution of the November plenum of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927
Box   1   Folder   76	Resolutions of the 5th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927
Box   1   Folder   77	Resolutions of the 6th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 1929
Box   1   Folder   78	Report and closing speech of the representative of ECCI at the 6th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 1928
Box   1   Folder   79	Institute of Chinese Studies, Materials for the Second Plenary session of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 1929
Box   1   Folder   80	Resolutions of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, 1927
Box   2   Folder   1	Kuomintang [Chinese Nationalist Party] Resolutions against the right wing, 1927
Box   2   Folder   2	Resolutions of the 4th All China Conference, KSM [Komsomol] 1927
Box   2   Folder   3	"Tasks of the Chinese Revolution" advanced article published in "Pravda" on September 30, 1927 1927
Box   2   Folder   4	"About the work of the Communist Party among Women" Proletarians of all countries and oppressed peoples of the whole world unite!, 1927
Box   2   Folder   5	Issues of the Chinese Revolution (facts and figures), 1927
Box   2   Folder   6	Reasons for the Defeat of the Revolution and Trotskyist Opposition to the Chinese Question (Theses for party circles on the Chinese question), 1927
Box   2   Folder   7	Thesis: Party and Komsomol, 1927
Box   2   Folder   8	Why the Chinese Communist Party leadership went bankrupt by Mandalyan, July 16, 1927
Box   2   Folder   9	History of the Revolutionary Movement in China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Socio-political relations in the are of imperalism: Chapter 5, 1928
Box   2   Folder   10	Material on the Chinese Question, 1928
Box   2   Folder   11	Cantonese Uprising, a collection of articles dedicated to the anniversary of the Cantonese commune 1929
Box   2   Folder   12	China by the end of 1928, issue 1 1929
Box   2   Folder   13	Chinese Communist Party Charter, 1929
Box   2   Folder   14	Comintern in the East: from the journal Communist International, 1929
Box   2   Folder   15	Communist Magazine, issue 1 November 1929
Box   2   Folder   16	Theoretical Problems of the Chinese Revolution, 1929
Box   2   Folder   17	Essay on the history of the 1911 Revolution, Part 2-3 1929
Box   2   Folder   18	"The China Party History Research Office is seeking memoirs" [questionnaire], 1930
Box   2   Folder   19	Communist International Monthly, volume 1, issue 1 February 15, 1930
Box   2   Folder   20	Chapters 1-3 of "The main stages of development of Comintern", 1930
Box   2   Folder   21	Materials on the history of the Communist Party of China, speech of the delegate from CPC to a general meeting of KUTV students 1932
Box   2   Folder   22	Table of Contents [and pages 1-7], 1928
Box   2   Folder   23	Table of Contents [single page], Undated
Box   3   Folder   1	[Original acquisition list of materials, with note to Dianna from CW] Undated
Box   3   Folder   2	[Personal files, 6 pages of handwritten notes] Undated
Box   3   Folder   3	Articles from Li-shih Yen-chui (LYSC) #1 [Historical Research journal, pages 3-40] 1977
Box   3   Folder   4	Articles from Li-shih Yen-chui (LYSC) #5 [Historical Research journal, pages 17-36] 1977
Box   3   Folder   5	Articles from Li-shih Yen-chui (LYSC) #7 [Historical Research journal, pages 3-14] 1979
Box   3   Folder   6	Articles from Li-shih Yen-chui (LYSC) [Historical Research journal, pages 13-18] Undated
Box   3   Folder   7	[Journal article] from Red Flag magazine (Hongqi) no. 11, 1979
Box   3   Folder   8	[Journal article] Greatness comes from pratice by He Changgong from Red Flag magazine (Hongqi) no. 12, 1979
Box   3   Folder   9	[no title page, published by Sun Yat-Sen University, Moscow, 159 pages] Undated
Box   3   Folder   10	Marxist research reference materials, issue 20 December 25, 1979
Box   3   Folder   11	Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences held a seminar on Mao Zedong's philosophical thought [include note to recipient at top of page], 1979
Box   3   Folder   12	[Journal article, possibly from Szechuan Studies Journal] The party's struggle to crush Zhang Guotao's right leaning separatist line on the Long March 1979
Box   3   Folder   13	[Journal article] The spread of anarchism in China and its bankruptcy by Kuang Shanji, Undated
Box   3   Folder   14	[Journal article] A preliminary study on comrade Chen Yun's economic thoughts by Guan Mengjue from "Economics Research Journal", issue 4 1982
Box   3   Folder   15	[pages 1-4] published by Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, issue 2 February 1983
Box   3   Folder   16	[Journal article] About nationalism by Li Zehou from Ming Pao Monthly, February 1993
Box   3   Folder   17	[Journal article] Mao Zedong and "Cultural Revolution" by Wang Ruoshui, March 1993
Box   3   Folder   18	[Journal article] by Li Zehou from "Ming Pao Monthly", August 1993