Pavel Mif was the pseudonym of Mikhail Alexandrovich Fortus (born August 3, 1901 in Khersones Gubernia of Russian Empire - 10 September 1939), Russian Bolshevik Party member from May 1917, historian with a Doctor's degree in economics (1935), participant of Russian civil war (1918-20), a student at Yakov Sverdlov Communist University (1920-21), did communist party work in Ukraine (1923-25), prorector of Sun Yat-sen Communist university of the Toilers of China

Moscow Sun Yat-sen University

Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school, which operated from 1925-1930. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China .-Origins:In 1923, Dr...

 (Moscow) under Karl Radek

Karl Radek

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 from 1925, rector of the same institution after 1927, member of the Executive Council of Comintern

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

 concurrently, participant of the 5th (1927), 6th (1928) Congresses of the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

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 and the 4th Plenary meeting of its Central Committee

Central Committee

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...

(1931).