Relations between Japanese revolutionaries, the Comintern and the Soviet Union

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Relations between Japanese revolutionaries, the Comintern and the Soviet Union existed from the 1920s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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The Comintern made first contact with Japanese revolutionaries in 1920. It helped establish the Japanese Communist Party. [1] Both the Comintern and the JCP had close relations. The JCP had financial ties with both the Comintern, [2] and the Soviet government. [3]

The Soviet Union solicited working-class Japanese to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV), [4] known as "Kutobe" by the Japanese. [5]

Many Japanese activists who resided in the Soviet Union became victims of Stalin's Great Purge. [6]

The relationship between the JCP and the Soviet Union deteriorated by the 1960s, when Pro‐Chinese members became the majority of the party. [7]

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References

  1. Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp 30-55
  2. Tim, Rees, and Thorpe, Andrew. International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-43 Manchester University Press, 1998.
  3. Yukiko Koshiro (2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press. pp. 15–45.
  4. Yukiko Koshiro (2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press. p. 30.
  5. Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp 30-55
  6. Kato, Tetsuro (July 2000). "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR" (PDF). Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies. 32 (1).
  7. "4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes". New York Times. 1964-10-04.

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