Grigori Voitinsky
Grigori Voitinsky | |
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Григорий Войтинский | |
| Representative of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Grigori Zarkhin 17 April 1893 |
| Died | 11 June 1953 (aged 60) |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Socialist Party of America |
Grigori Naumovich Voitinsky, born Zarkhin (Russian: Григорий Наумович Войтинский; 17 April 1893 – 11 June 1953) was a Soviet Communist International (Comintern) official. At age 27, he was sent to the Republic of China in 1920 by the Comintern to contact top prominent Chinese revolutionaries such as Chen Duxiu and establish the infrastructure for a communist party, just before the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Voitinsky is considered to be a "chief architect" in founding the CCP.