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

oughly 5 percent of the approximately eighty women students then
at the university.
4. Eight of the 28 Bolsheviks came from Hupeh Province, the
largest number of persons from any one province. Five came from
Anhwei Province, four came from Hunan, four from Szechuan, one
from Kiangsi, and six from Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces.
5. All of the 28 Bolsheviks came from the Yangtze River valley.
6. Of the 28 Bolsheviks, about twenty had received higher educations
and were fluent in one or two foreign languages such as Russian,
English, French, or German.
7. One of them—Hsia Hsi—was a member of the CC of the CCP
before he returned to China, and ten—Chang Wen-t'ien, Ch'en Shaoyu,
Ch'in Pang-hsien, Ho K'e-ch'uan, Shen Tse-min, Li Chou-sheng,
Sheng Chung-liang, Wang Chia-hsiang, Wang Yun-ch'eng, and Yang
Shang-k'uen—were elected members or alternate members of the CC
of the CCP at one time or another after their return to China, three of
them—Ch'en Shao-yu, Ch'in Pang-hsien, and Chang Wen-t'ien—becoming
secretaries general of the CCP. Two became in succession
chairmen of the Shanghai bureau of the CC of the CCP—Li Chousheng
and Sheng Chung-liang. Four—Ch'in Pang-hsien, Wang Yunch'eng,
Sun Chi-min, and Ho K'e-ch'uan—became members of the
CC of the CYC, two of them—Ch'in Pang-hsien and Wang Yun-ch'eng
—becoming secretaries general of the CYC. The rest of the 28
Bolsheviks became Party leaders at the provincial level or became
Front Army political commissars.
8. Among the 28 Bolsheviks, four died of illnesses or in plane
crashes. Three were captured by the KMT and executed. Eleven were
captured by the KMT and left the Communist Party. Of these eleven,
three were subsequently captured by the Chinese Communists when
the Communists came to national power in China, and were executed.
Of the rest of the eleven, seven stayed in mainland China when the
Communists came to power there, and I know nothing about how
they have fared except that indications are that Ch'en Shao-yu now
lives in the USSR. I, too, have settled abroad. Seven of the 28 Bolsheviks
remained in the CCP, four of them in the CC, prior to the advent of the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But either prior to the Great
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