Comintern agent known for his role as advisor to the Kuomintang in China during the 1920s
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Markovich and the family name is Gruzenberg.
Mikhail Borodin
1920s portrait of Borodin
Born
Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg
(1884-07-09)9 July 1884
Yanovichi, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
29 May 1951(1951-05-29) (aged 66)
near Yakutsk, Yakut ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Other names
Michael Gruzenberg Michael Borodin
Occupation(s)
Comintern agent, military and political advisor
Organization
Communist International
Political party
General Jewish Labour Bund (1900–1903) Bolsheviks (from 1903)
Other political affiliations
Chinese Communist Party Kuomintang
Spouse
Fanya Orluk
Children
Fred Borodin Norman Borodin [ru]
Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg,[a] known by the alias Borodin[b] (9 July 1884 – 29 May 1951), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent. He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT) in China during the 1920s.
Born in a rural part of the Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Jewish family, Borodin joined the General Jewish Labour Bund at age sixteen, and then the Bolsheviks in 1903. After being arrested for participating in revolutionary activities, Borodin fled to America, attended Valparaiso University, started a family, and later established an English school for Russian Jewish immigrants in Chicago. Upon the success of the October Revolution in 1917, Borodin returned to Russia, and served in various capacities in the new Soviet government. From 1919, he served as an agent of the Comintern, travelling to various countries to spread the Bolshevik revolutionary cause. In 1923, Vladimir Lenin picked Borodin to lead a Comintern mission to China, where he was tasked with aiding Sun Yat-sen and his Kuomintang. Following Sun's death, Borodin assisted in the planning of the Northern Expedition, and later became an integral backer of the KMT leftist government in Wuhan.
Following a purge of communists from the Kuomintang, Borodin was forced to return to the Soviet Union in 1927, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He once again served in various positions within the Soviet government, and later helped found the English-language Moscow News newspaper, of which he would become the editor-in-chief. During the Second World War, he additionally served as editor-in-chief of the Soviet Information Bureau. Amidst rising antisemitism in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s, Borodin was arrested and deported to a prison camp. He died in 1951 and was officially rehabilitated in 1964.
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