Grigori Naumowitsch Woitinski

Grigori Voitinsky ( Russian Григорий Наумович Войтинский ; real name: Sarchin , Russian Зархин ; born 5 April ^jul. / 17th April 1893 ^greg. In Newel , † 11. June 1953 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician , employees of the Comintern and Sinologist .

Life

Woitinski emigrated to the USA and Canada in 1913 . In 1918 he returned to Soviet Russia, became a member of the Russian Communist Party and was a member of the Krasnoyarsk Soviet . He took part in the civil war in the Far East and Siberia . He fought - especially in Omsk - against the troops of Admiral Kolchak . In May 1919 he was captured in Vladivostok and taken to the island of Sakhalin .

After his liberation in January 1920 Woitinski worked from then on for the Comintern . He was responsible for the Far East in the Comintern apparatus and was the envoy of the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI) in China. In 1920 he first met with Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao , later co-founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Sun Yat-sen , founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Woitinski attended the plenums of the CPC Central Committee in May 1924, October 1925, and July 1926. From 1926 Woitinski was chairman of the Far Eastern Office of the EKKI in Shanghai . As a representative of the Comintern, he participated in the IVth Party Congress of the CCP in January 1925 in Shanghai and the Vth Party Conference of the CCP in April / May 1927 in Wuhan . After the break of the First United Front between the KMT and the CCP in 1927, Woitinski returned to the Soviet Union.

From 1929 Woitinski was director of the Pacific Institute in Moscow, in the 1930s he researched and taught in Moscow (from 1935 as a professor of Chinese studies). From 1932 he was Secretary of the Pacific Secretariat of Profintern .

Woitinski died in 1953 during an operation.

Works

КВЖД и политика империалистов в Китае ( The Chinese Eastern Railway and the Policy of the Imperialists in China ). Moscow 1930.

literature

Branko Lazitch: Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern . Hoover Institution Press, Stanford 1986, pp. 497f.

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personal data
SURNAME	Woitinski, Grigory Naumowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Войтинский, Григорий Наумович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian politician and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newel (Pskov)
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 1953
Place of death	Moscow