Mikhail Markowitsch Borodin

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Mikhail Borodin

Mikhail Borodin ( Михаил Маркович Бородин , [ mʲɪxɐjiɫ markəvʲiʧʲ bəradʲin ], born Grusenberg [ Грузенберг ] * 9. July 1884 in Janowitsch , Belarus; † 29. May 1951 in Moscow in jail Lefortovo ) was a Russian revolutionary and representative of the Comintern .

Life

Borodin was born into a Russian-Jewish family. In 1903 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . 1904–1905 he lived as an emigrant in Bern. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution in 1905 he went to Riga, from where he emigrated via Great Britain to the United States in 1906, where he studied at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso , Indiana and founded a school for political emigrants in Chicago . In 1918 he returned to Russia and worked from 1919 to 1922 as an agent for the Comintern in Mexico, Turkey, Scandinavia, the USA and Great Britain.

From 1923 to 1927, during the First United Front of Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party , Borodin worked as a representative of the Comintern and political advisor to the national government in Guangzhou (Canton). After the death of the Soviet-friendly Sun Yat-sen in 1925, Borodin remained an advisor to Guomindang, which was now run by Chiang Kai-shek . After the first phase of the northern campaign , Borodin initially worked with the Wuhan faction of the Guomindang. When the failure of the communist strategy became apparent after Chiang's defeat of the Shanghai workforce in April 1927, Borodin left China in July 1927 with the other Comintern advisers, including MN Roy .

From 1932 to 1949 he worked in a leading position for the news agencies TASS and " Sowinformbüro " and as editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper Moscow News .

In 1949 he was sentenced to camp imprisonment in the course of the Stalinist persecution against “ cosmopolitanism ” as an “enemy of the Soviet Union” and died two years later in a Siberian labor camp.

literature

  • Anna Louise Strong : China trip. With Borodin through China and Mongolia. New German publishing house, Berlin 1928.
  • Daniel N. Jacobs: Borodin. Stalin's Man in China. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1981, ISBN 0-674-07910-8 .
  • Zhihong Chen: Mikhail Borodin's China Mission until Sun Yatsen's death. A contribution to the Soviet China policy in the years 1923-25 (= history. Vol. 29). Lit, Münster et al. 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4980-5 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1997).

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Markovich Borodin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Кто вы, Норман Бородин? Следы настоящего Штирлица надо искать в… карагандинских архивах
personal data
SURNAME Borodin, Mikhail Markowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary and agent of the Comintern
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Yanovich , Belarus
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1951
Place of death Moscow