Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution - KU ...

kan-shih hui). # The General Committee was made up wholly of
people who had attended Sun Yat-sen University. Surely Stalin in his
wildest dreams could not have imagined that Sun Yat-sen University,
which he helped to establish, would generate so many disciples of his
deadliest enemy—Trotsky. Yet these disciples of Trotsky were emperors
in their own households only; they had no substantial popular following.
The official title of the organization formed at the January, 1930,
meeting was Chung-\uo Kung-ch'an-tang tso-p'ai huan-tuei-p'at (Left
opposition of the CCP). A participant in the Trotskyite events of
the time told me many years later that the Chinese Left opposition
responded to instructions from Trotsky in setting up this organization.
Trotsky's instructions were to remain within the organizational framework
of the established CCP, rather than to form a rival organization
which would be isolated from the members of that Party. The Left
opposition could, Trotsky reportedly said, operate more expeditiously
within the established Party than from outside. This tactic failed,
however, for the Trotskyites soon were expelled from the established
Party.
Among the slogans that the Chinese Left opposition that was
probably formed in January, 1930, used were the following:
1. To demand that the CC [of the established CCP] publicly discuss
the issues raised by the Left opposition.
2. To demand that the CC convene a National Party Congress to
elect a new CC.
3. To demand that the CC appeal to the Comintern to publicly
discuss the China problem.
4. To demand that the CPSU restore Trotsky to his former position
in that Party.
# The General Committee apparently included Liang Kan-ch'ao, Shih Shou-yun, Ch'en
I-mou, Li Mei-wu, Sung Feng-ch'un, Chang T'e, and Lu Yen, who started using the name
Lu I-yuan when he returned to China. The following people seem to have been elected alternate
members of the General Committee: Hsiao Pin-yang, Ou Fang, T'ang Yueh-po and Hsu
Chen-an. Shih Shou-yun was secretary general of the General Committee; Lu Yen was
director of propaganda; Chang T'e was director of organizational affairs; Hsu Chen-an
was in charge of activities in the Kiangsu-Chekiang area; Liang Kan-ch'ao was in charge of
activities in southern China; Ou Fang was in charge of propaganda in southern China; Ch'en
I-mou was in charge of organizational affairs in southern China; Sung Feng-ch'un was in charge
of activities in northern China; Hsiao Pin-yang was in charge of propaganda in northern
China; and Li Mei-wu was in charge of organizational affairs in northern China.
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