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Moscow Sun Yat-sen University

University in Soviet Union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school which operated from 1925 to 1930 in Moscow in the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that was split off from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Its relationship to the Comintern's International Liaison Department remains unclear.

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“Moscow Sun Yat-sen University” enters the record as university in Soviet Union. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moscow, Yat-sen and University can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moscow, Yat-sen and University.
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“Moscow Sun Yat-sen University” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moscow, Yat-sen and University provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 1930.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Moscow Sun Yat-sen University” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.