The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

I would also like to thank Professor Khoo Boo Teik of The National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies, Tokyo, Japan, for kindly reading the draft of this study, profoundly improving its English
and advising about its structure.
He also recommended me to complete this study at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies – Yusof
Ishak Institute (ISEAS) of Singapore, which accepted me as a Visiting Senior Researcher for three
months, from 26 January till 25 April 2015. At ISEAS, its Director, Mr. Tan Chin Tiong,
occasionally encouraged me to complete the work. I greatly appreciate ISEAS including its Library
and all its staff, especially Mr. Tan Chin Tiong and Dr. Lee Hock Guan, for kindly giving me an
opportunity and place to concentrate myself on completion of this research.
I shared an office-room with an eminent historian, Dr. Leon Comber. He kindly suggested to me
that microfilms of the Shanghai Municipal Police Special Branch Files (SMPF) were kept in the
Central Library of the National University of Singapore (NUS). NUS Library kindly allowed me to
read these microfilms. I am grateful to Dr. Comber, the NUS Library and its staff.
At the last stage of writing the draft, I asked Ms. Larisa Nikitina, a Ph.D. candidate of University of
Malaya (She took Ph.D. half a year later), to clarify uncertain portions of the original Russianlanguage
documents and to correct Roman spelling of Chinese names which were originally written
in Russian. I am deeply grateful to her.
This study follows the classification of the documents of the RSASPH employed by Professor
Kurihara, such as Ф. 495 оп.62 д.30.
Notes
1. Its original name was the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. The name was changed to the
Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History in 2001.
See Sophie Quinn-Judge, Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1911–1941, Singapore,
Horizon Books, pp. 2, 260, which refers to the Archive as “RC”.
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