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

worried the 28 Bolsheviks. For she was friendly with Chou Ta-ming,
Tung Yi-hsiang, and Yu Hsiu-sung, the leaders of the former Academic
Affairs faction in the university who were supporters of the Second
Line. She had made it abundantly clear on numerous occasions that
she regarded Chou Ta-ming as a "Chinese Lenin." It seemed a strong
possibility that Chou Ta-ming would be able to influence her views on
the matter. Moreover, when she launched her investigation, it did
indeed seem as though she was not gathering all the data that she
needed to prepare an impartial report. She did not, so far as I remember,
for example, consult any of the 28 Bolsheviks, although she did
gather the views of some members of the Second Line coalition. We
acquainted Mif with the special relationship between her and Chou
Ta-ming. He used his influence with Stalin to induce Stalin to ask
Mrs. Yaroslavsky not to submit a biased report. Because of Stalin's intervention,
no doubt, Mrs. Yaroslavsky in the end submitted a report
which temporized a good deal. She recommended that the CC of the
CPSU endorse the general political line of the bureau of the Party
branch at the university. At the same time, though, she criticized the
bureau for numerous shortcomings in its day-to-day Party work. The
CC of the CPSU accepted her recommendation and instructed her to
present her findings at a general Party meeting at the university, which
was held sometime early in 1930. I remember that when she reached
the point in her report at which she recommended support for the
general political line of the Party bureau, the 28 Bolsheviks and their
supporters greeted her words with enthusiastic applause, while the
members of the Second Line coalition listened with bowed heads.
Her statements represented nothing less than a recognition that the
Party bureau and the 28 Bolsheviks were basically correct and a condemnation
of the Second Line coalition as being basically anti-Party.
The Second Line coalition and its backers, Ch'u Ch'iu-pai and
Chang Kuo-t'ao, suffered complete defeat. For shortly after the CPSU
adopted its resolution endorsing the political line of the Party bureau
in the university, Russian delegates to the Comintern introduced a
similar resolution in the Comintern, which criticized the attitude of
the Chinese Communist Comintern delegates in their struggle. 7 This
gave Mif and the 28 Bolsheviks an additional victory, while Ch'u
Ch'iu-pai and Chang Kuo-t'ao were completely routed. Although Mif
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