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Siberia and the Russian Far East in Soviet-Chinese Relations and the Policies of the Comintern, 1918-1924

Student: Sukhan Daniil

Supervisor: Ivan Sablin

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

This research concerns the activity of the various Soviet institutions of power and their agents of Siberia and the Far East, performing Soviet-Chinese relations in 1918-1924. Instead of repeating a well-known idea in the historiography that these institutions were the conductors of the high rank Soviet leaders’ policy, this research offers a new view on the topic. The author uses the conception of the Soviet Empire by Ronald Suny and the notion of the imperial situation to underline the complexity of the party structure and reveal the methods which were used by the local agents to control or change the Soviet-Chinese relations. These were the falsification of information, the disobedience to the party leaders and balancing between the official Soviet government and the Comintern positions while performing their own plans of policy. The research uses a wide range of sources: while focusing on the archive documents of the Communist Party, it employs also the memoirs of participants in the Civil War in Russia. The structure of the essay leads the reader through all the history of the local Soviet institutions, starting from their emerging, focusing on its agents in China and the foreign policy specialists, as well as their role in the Chinese policy, until the establishing of the Soviet-Chinese official diplomatic relations in 1924.

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