Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg, known by the alias Borodin, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International agent. He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang in China during the 1920s
Borodin in the 1920s
Borodin in Nanchang, 1926
The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party organizations and leftist e
Communists being rounded up during the purges
Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning of the Northern Expedition in 1926
Public beheading of a communist
The Nanking Nationalist government was established on April 18, with Chiang Kai-shek as head of government.