The role of the Chinese workers in Russia during the 1917 revolution in the early distribution of Marxism in China

Wang Jing, Cao Suyun, Ma Lidan

The article attempts to analyze the causes, methods, positive and negative experience of the early spread of Marxism in China by Chinese workers who worked in Russia during the October Revolution. It is noted that the Chinese workers were actively involved in the process of socialist transformations in Russia, where they were supported by the authorities of Soviet Russia. Upon returning to their homeland, the Chinese workers continued their revolutionary activities. They participated in the labor movement, the opening of party schools, the revolutionary press, the creation of the Communist Party of China, organizing meetings with representatives of the Comintern, etc. Despite some limited views and insufficiently strong theoretical training, the Chinese workers a lot done for the early dissemination of the ideas of Marxism in China.

Keywords:China, Russia, October Revolution, Chinese workers, party schools, newspapers, Marxism.