Volume 28, Number 9 · May 28, 1981
His Man in Canton
By John K. Fairbank
Borodin: Stalin's Man in China
by Dan N. Jacobs
Harvard University Press, 369 pp., $25.00
In the Chinese united front of the mid-1920s, the Soviet agent Borodin has been a protean figure. Bringing Leninist skills, arms, and advisers to Canton, he seemed to be the priceless ingredient that finally catalyzed Sun Yat-sen's revolution. Borodin drafted the Kuomintang's constitution and taught it how to be revolutionary long enough to take power. He really put the Kuomintang (KMT) in business. By rights there ought to be a bronze statue of Borodin at one of those big intersections in Taipei.
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