Relations between Japanese revolutionaries, the Comintern and the Soviet Union explained
Relations between Japanese revolutionaries, the Comintern and the Soviet Union existed from the 1920s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
History
The Comintern made first contact with Japanese revolutionaries in 1920. It helped establish the Japanese Communist Party.[1] Both the Comintern and the JCP had close relations. The JCP had financial ties with both the Comintern,[2] and the Soviet government.[3]
The Soviet Union solicited working-class Japanese to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV),[4] known as "Kutobe" by the Japanese.[5]
Many Japanese activists who resided in the Soviet Union became victims of Stalin's Great Purge.[6]
The relationship between the JCP and the Soviet Union deteriorated by the 1960s, when Pro‐Chinese members became the majority of the party.[7]
See also
Further reading
Notes and References
- Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp 30-55
- Tim, Rees, and Thorpe, Andrew. International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-43 Manchester University Press, 1998.
- Book: Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Yukiko Koshiro. Cornell University Press. 2013. 15–45.
- Book: Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Yukiko Koshiro. Cornell University Press. 2013. 30.
- Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp 30-55
- The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR . Kato . Tetsuro . Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies . 32 . 1 . July 2000 .
- Web site: 4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes . New York Times. 1964-10-04.
