The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

Two kinds of list of RSASPH documents used in this research, Russian-language and others, are
affixed as appendix at the end of the book.
After my completion of the draft in mid- April, 2015, the late Professor Cheah Boon Kheng, who
passed away on 25 July 2015, kindly sent me through email an article written by a Russian scholar,
Anna Belogurova. 14 Using the Comintern documents, it also deals with the relevant problems. I
thought it must be necessary to supplement my article by taking important new points referred in
her article into consideration. Therefore, at the end of each relevant portion, her arguments as well
as views are referred to and analyzed.
Notes
1. Sophie Quinn-Judge, Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1911-1941, Singapore, Horizon
Books, 2003.
2. Referred in Chapter 1.
3. Larisa Efimova, “Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New
Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948”, in Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.40, No.3 (October 2009).
4. C.F.Yong, The Origins of the Malayan Communism, Singapore, South Seas Society, 1997,
p.71. Referred in detail in Chapter 1.
5. Fang Shan, et.al., eds., Magong Wenji, Di 1 Ji, Zhanqian Dixia Douzheng Shiqi (1) (MCP
Anthologies, Underground Struggle Era before the War. 方 山 等 编 马 共 文 集 第 1 辑 战 前
地 下 斗 争 时 期 ( 一 )), Kuala Lumpur, Penerbitan Abad 21, 2010, (2010a henceforth), p.155.
Referred in detail in Chapter 1.
6. Zhou Nan-jing, et. al., eds., Dictionary of overseas Chinese (Shijie Huaqiao Huaren Cidian),
周 南 京 主 编 , 世 界 华 侨 华 人 词 典 ,Beijing University, 1993, p.560.
7. Yong, op., cit., pp.128-147.
8. Yong, op., cit., p.152.
9. Cheah Boon Kheng, From PKI to the Comintern, 1924-1941: The Apprenticeship of the
Malayan Communist Party, New York, Cornell University, 1992, p.18.
10. Hanrahan, G. Z., The Communist Struggle in Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya
Press, 1971, p.151. In reality, that constitution was decided in 1939. See Chapter 8.
11. C.F. Yong, op., cit., pp.168, 169.
12. Cheah, op., cit., pp.22-25.
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