Alliance of Adversaries: The Congress of the Toilers of the Far East

384 Pages·2019·4.1 MB·English

by  John Sexton (ed.)

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Alliance of Adversaries
TheCongressof theToilersof theFarEast
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
NoteonTextsandSources xii
Illustrations xiii
Introduction 1
Prefacetothe1970HammersmithReprint 43
OpeningSession:21January1922,Moscow 45
OpeningaddressbyZinoviev,chairmanoftheCentralExecutiveCom-
mitteeoftheComintern.ElectionofCongressPresidium.Speechesby
KatayamaonbehalfoftheComintern,KalininonbehalfofAll-Russia
CentralExecutiveCommittee,LozovskyonbehalfoftheRedTrade
UnionInternational,Yoodzu(MizutaniKenichi)oftheJapanesedel-
egation,Tao(ZhangQiubai)oftheChinesedelegation,Pak-Kieng(Kim
Kyu-sik)oftheKoreandelegation,Wong(HuangBihun)oftheChinese
women’sdelegation,unnamedMongoliandelegate,Simpson(Semaun)
oftheJavadelegation,Schiller(RichardSchüller)onbehalfoftheYoung
CommunistInternational,M.N.RoyfromIndia,Carr(L.E.Katterfeld)
fromtheUnitedStates.
SecondSession:Morningof23January1922,Moscow 65
Electionofmandatecommissionandadoptionofstandingorders.
ReportbyZinovievontheinternationalsituationandtheresultsofthe
WashingtonConference.
ThirdSession:Eveningof23January1922,Moscow 88
ReportonthesituationinChinabyLi-Kieng(ZhangGuotao).Reporton
ChineseworkersbyWong-Kien-Ti(DengPei).
FourthSession:Morningof24January1922,Moscow 99
ReportontheeconomicsituationofChinabyPing-Tong(YuShude).
GreetingsfromtheNizhnyNovgoroddivisionoftheRedArmy.Report
onthepoliticalsituationinChinabyTao(ZhangQiubai).
viii contents
FifthSession:Eveningof24January1922,Moscow 118
ReportbyWong(HuangBihun)onthepositionofChinesewomen.
ReportontheWashingtonConferencebyWong-KiengofKoreandeleg-
ation.ReportbyPak-Kieng(KimKyu-sik)ontheKoreanrevolutionary
movement.
SixthSession:Morningof25January1922,Moscow 159
ReportonMongoliabyDin-Dib(Dendev).Reportontheeconomic
situationinKoreabyKho(ChoTongho).Reportonthepoliticaland
economicproblemsofJapanbyKatayama.ReportontheJapanese
CommunistPartybyYakiwa.ReportontheJapaneselabourorganisa-
tionRodoshabyKato(YoshidaHajime).
SeventhSession:Eveningof25January1922,Moscow 202
DebateonZinoviev’sreport.Speakers:Yodoshu(YuShude),Katayama,
Flore(KimWon’gyŏng),Tao(ZhangQiubai),Kim-Khu(RimWŏn-
gŭn/ImWŏn-gŭn),Booyan-Manhu(SonombaljirynBuyannemekh).
ReplybyZinoviev.Motiontodrawupamanifesto.
EighthSession:Morningof26January1922,Moscow 220
Reportonthenational-colonialquestionbyG.I.Safarov.
NinthSession:Morningof27January1922,Moscow 240
DebateonSafarov’sreport.Speakers:Din-Dib(Dendev),Kor-Khan
(Ch’aeTongsun),Khwong(KwonAera),Kim-Chow(YiChaegon),Tao
(ZhangQiubai),Koo,Kolokolov,U-An,Nagano,Yakova,Kato(Yoshida
Hajime).
TenthSession:Eveningof27January1922,Moscow 259
Safarovrepliestodiscussion.Reportofthecredentialscommittee.
EleventhSession:Eveningof30January,Moscow 268
SpeechesbyKeroftheFrenchCommunistPartyandWalter(Walcher)
oftheGermanCommunistParty.KerandWalter(Walcher)electedto
Presidium.Discussionandvotingondraftresolutionsonthereportsof
ZinovievandSafarov.Speakers:Sun,Katayama,Kho-Syl-Mon,Din-Dib
(Dendev).InvitationofdelegatestoPetrograd.Electionofcommittee
torevisedraftmanifesto.TextofresolutiononZinoviev’sreportThe
ResultsoftheWashingtonConferenceandtheSituationintheFarEast.
ResolutiononSafarov’sreport.
contents ix
TheResultsoftheWashingtonConferenceandtheSituationintheFar
East 275
ResolutiononZinoviev’sreport.ResolutionproposedbyChowon
Safarov’sreport.
FinalSession:Eveningof2February1922,Petrograd 283
SpeechesbySmirnovonbehalfofPetrogradCommitteeoftheR.C.P.,
EvdokimovofthePetrogradTradeUnionCouncil,Naumovofthe
RevolutionaryMilitaryCouncilofPetrogradandtheBalticFleet,
NikolaevnaonbehalfoftheworkingwomenofPetrograd,Lang-Tsa-Sin,
Katayama,Tan-Zam(Danzan),Wong(HuangBihun),Khem,Li,Ker,Carr
(L.E.Katterfeld).ManifestoreadbySafarov.ClosingaddressbyZinoviev.
ManifestooftheCongress 299
ManifestooftheFirstCongressoftheCommunistandRevolutionary
OrganisationsoftheFarEasttothePeoplesoftheFarEast.
GreetingstothePresidentoftheAll-RussianCentralExecutiveCommittee
M.I.Kalinin 304
ReportoftheCredentialsCommittee 305
ClassificationofDelegates 307
Appendix1:OrganisationsRepresentedattheCongress 313
Appendix2:TimelineofEvents 319
Appendix3:CongressDelegates 322
Bibliography 337
Index 347
IllustrationSection 360