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

to control the CC. So a new power struggle between this faction and
the 28 Bolsheviks or "The Returned Student Clique" grew sharp.
Under the direction of Mif, who by then was in Shanghai, the so-called
anti-"Right"-opportunist movement against Ho Meng-hsiung and Lo
Chang-lung and against the remnants of the Li Li-san line began
almost at the same time.
To secure a CCP completely loyal to the Comintern, the Comintern
dispatched Mif to China as its representative in November or December,
1930. Mif carried an important mission to China: to reorganize
the CC of the CCP by introducing the 28 Bolsheviks into it and
thus to expedite the "Bolshevization" of the CCP. In other words, his
mission was to put the Chinese Communists under the absolute control
of the Russian Communists. However, there are varying versions as to
to the approximate date of Mif s arrival in China and the return of the
28 Bolsheviks to China. For example, Benjamin I. Schwartz says,
"Thus we find out when Mif was appointed Comintern Delegate to
China in the spring of 1930, his young proteges accompanied him back
to China." 17 But Hsiao Tso-liang reports that Chang Kuo-t'ao told
him in an interview: "He [Pavel Mif] arrived in China as Comintern
delegate probably in June, 1930, and went back to Russia toward the
end of 1930 or early in 1931. . . . Mif brought with him to China a
group of young students centering around Ch'en Shao-yu." 18 There
is another version claiming that Mif arrived in China in November,
1930, after the Third Plenum of the Sixth CC, which was held in
September of that year. In this connection Hsiao Tso-liang states,
again according to the interview with Chang Kuo-t'ao:
Chou En-lai was sent by the CCP to Moscow in the spring of 1930 at the behest
of Pavel Mif, chief of the Chinese Section, Eastern Department, Communist
International. After his arrival in Moscow, Chou En-lai took over practically all
the business of the Chinese delegation in Moscow, conducting negotiations on
behalf of the CCP at the bidding of Mif. Both Ch'ii Ch'iu-pai and Chang Kuot'ao
were kept in the background by the Comintern on account of their hostility
to Mif, which came to the fore in what was known as the Sun Yat-sen University
case, in which they attacked the educational policy of Mif as president of that
university and thus were punished. 19
My own experience in these matters was this: From the spring of
1930 until August, when I went to the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk area,
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