Xu Juezai： Deciphering the Historical Truth of Archives Disclosure

The latest declassified documents and archives reveal the true inside story of some major events in the history of world socialism. Here, the author summarizes the research results of scholars from all over the world, and briefly introduces the historical and true insider disclosure of some major events.

Molotov’s myth that Lenin recommended Stalin as general secretary.

Two biographies of Stalin translated and published in 2014 (R. Xie Weisi: Biography of Stalin and C. Rebas and E. Rebas: Biography of Stalin: Fate and Strategy) all unanimously recognized that Stalin was nominated by Lenin as the general secretary. To this end, researcher Zheng Yifan of the Central Compilation Bureau published "Who is the behind-the-scenes pusher of Stalin as the general secretary? The article believes that there is no evidence to prove that Lenin suggested the establishment of the post of general secretary in the party, especially that Lenin recommended Stalin for this post. This paper holds that it is not surprising for Molotov, a die-hard Stalinist, to continue to emphasize the so-called Lenin nomination, but it is a bit ridiculous to say that Stalin is Lenin’s designated successor and Lenin’s closest comrade-in-arms and student when the archives about Lenin’s last days have been published. In fact, Kamenev and Zinoveyev have done a lot of work behind the scenes to put their own Stalin on this throne. At the April plenary session of the Central Committee in 1922, according to Zinoviev’s proposition, Kamenev proposed the appointment of Stalin as the general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. It can be seen that the post of General Secretary of Stalin was the common idea of Zinoveyev and Kamenev, which can explain why Zinoveyev, Kamenev and Stalin were able to quickly form a "troika" to control the supreme power in the near future. Lenin did not attend the central plenary session that decided Stalin to take the post of general secretary.

Historical Textual Research on the Founding Subject of "Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow"

Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, founded in the autumn of 1925, has trained a large number of political cadres and military talents for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. However, for various reasons, there have always been different interpretations about the school’s running funds and founding subjects for many years. According to the declassified archives of the Comintern, the Communist Party of China (Bolshevik) and the China Revolution and the relevant memories of the parties concerned, Xu Yuan Palace of the Central Compilation Bureau analyzes the reasons why the Soviet side has long concealed the truth of the founding subject of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow in the article Historical Textual Research. The article points out that on March 19th, 1925, the Communist Party of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee (Bolshevik) held a meeting to discuss the issue of establishing schools in the Soviet Union to train China revolutionaries, and considered it appropriate to expand the China branch of the Eastern Workers’ Communist University or establish a new China Workers’ Communist University. Although the choice and determination of the school site and principal, the composition of the school leaders, the solution of the school’s "organizational form" and the provision of start-up funds were all decided on the Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party of the Russian Communist Party (Brazzaville), the Soviet high-level officials stressed the need to keep this truth secret, mainly because it was convenient to explain and hand over to the Soviet people in distress at home; Don’t let the Beijing government seize the handle of the Soviet government’s interference in China’s internal affairs and subversion of China’s current regime; Avoid the international community, especially the governments of western capitalist countries, from grasping the pretext of the Soviet government exporting revolution and communism.

Russian archives reveal the inside story of the Communist International’s establishment of the "China Research Group"

The "China Research Group" is a temporary organization established by the Secretariat of the Comintern Executive Committee in 1939 to prepare the guiding documents for the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Its main tasks are three: first, to eliminate the harmful consequences caused by the Comintern and the CPC on the China issue; Secondly, it is related to the writing method and rich ideological content of the concise course of the history of the Communist Party of China (Bolshevik), and on this basis, it expounds the real history of the Communist Party of China (CPC); Third, on the basis of analyzing and studying the existing materials, prepare some important guiding documents for the upcoming Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of China. According to dimitrov’s instructions, the group focused on how to stop the danger of surrender and strengthen China’s war of resistance; How to consolidate the anti-Japanese national United front and Kuomintang-Communist cooperation; How to strengthen the Eighth Route Army and the Communist Party of China (CPC); How to continue War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and other four issues when the surrender of Kuomintang and the breakdown of cooperation between Kuomintang and Communist Party became a reality. The book "The Communist Party of China (Bolshevik), the Comintern and the Communist Party of China (CPC) in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression’s Period (1937 ~ 1943.5)" compiled by Russian scholars contains some documents about this group’s activities. The article "Comments on the Comintern China Research Group" by Zeng Chenggui, a researcher of Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, sorts out the archives. By studying this example, we can not only know the way, process and effect of the decision-making of the Comintern Executive Committee from one side, but also reflect the tendency of some senior cadres to be too biased towards Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang and ignore the independence of the Communist Party of China on the issue of China United front, and we can also deepen our understanding of Mao Zedong’sThe truth of the assertion that "the victory of China’s revolutionary struggle depends on Comrade China’s understanding of China".

Unveil the historical veil of the three major events of the Soviet Union in 1953.

In 1953, three major historical events occurred in the history of the Soviet Union: one was the "Kremlin doctor case"; The second is the case of "the mystery of Stalin’s death"; The third is the "beria Incident". There have been many biographies and memoirs at home and abroad to disclose the inside story and evaluation of these events, but there is no agreement. Wang Guixiang, an associate researcher at China Academy of Social Sciences, wrote in the article "Unveiling the Dust-laden Historical Veil —— Decryption of Soviet Archives about the 1953 Incident" that it is generally believed that the "doctor case" began with a letter from Jimashuk, a cardiologist at the Kremlin Hospital, who reported that zhdanov, a member of the Politburo, had been wrongly treated. As a matter of fact, there is indeed this letter, the content of which is only different medical diagnosis opinions on zhdanov’s heart disease, but it was used by Liu Ming, then deputy minister of national security and director of the investigation bureau, thus accusing the doctors of being recruited by the international Jewish bourgeois nationalist organization "Qiao Yingte", with the aim of physically destroying the party and state leaders through treatment. In fact, all the doctors mentioned in the letter are Russians, and there is no connection with the "Zionist conspiracy" at all. The "doctor case" is an unfinished anti-Zionist movement launched by Stalin before his death. So far, all kinds of statements about Stalin’s murder are only speculations, without any strong factual basis, and the "theory of death" is closer to the fact. The "beria Incident" was the product of the Soviet Union’s high-level power struggle after Stalin’s death. The real reason for the incident was the desire for power and fear of colleagues.Make them unite to plot against beria’s "palace coup", Khrushchev also ordered to save many documents that Stalin sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and People’s Committee, as well as beria’s private files with 11 large bags, all of which were put into the fire and burned to ashes, becoming a historical secret forever. Therefore, the charges of betraying the motherland, forming an anti-Soviet conspiracy and engaging in terrorist activities were also fabricated out of thin air.

Vietnamese Ambassador to China Huang Wenhuan questioned that Ho Chi Minh’s will had been tampered with.

On September 2, 1969, Ho Chi Minh died. On September 9, Vietnam held a state funeral for him and announced his will, but the will of less than 2,000 words left a long mystery after its publication. Jin Dianqiang’s article "Ho Chi Minh’s Will Leave Many Mysteries-Vietnamese Ambassador to China Huang Wenhuan Questioned that the will was tampered with" pointed out that Lê Duẩn, the former first secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party, and others thought that the situation was complicated at that time, and some contents in the will should be omitted and changed in order to achieve complete victory over the American aggressors and complete the reunification of the motherland. A few days later, the revised will of Ho Chi Minh was published in the People’s Daily, the organ of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party. On August 9, 1979, Huang Wenhuan held a Chinese and foreign press conference in Beijing, exposing the pro-Soviet and anti-China policies of the Lê Duẩn authorities, and exposing a bigger secret, namely, Lê Duẩn castrated or tampered with Ho Chi Minh’s will, and only published a handwriting to confuse the genuine with the genuine. One of the most important things is that Ho Chi Minh can’t have "as a person who has served the revolution all his life, the more I am proud of the strength of international communism and the workers’ movement, the more I feel sad about the discord between the fraternal parties!" The statement. In 1989, on the 20th anniversary of Ho Chi Minh’s death, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam not only announced that Ho Chi Minh’s death was delayed by one day, but also publicly admitted that there was an appendix to Ho Chi Minh’s will.

(The author is a researcher at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)