The Communist Party of Japan
Initially a distinct group within the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), the Communist Party of Japan (CPJ) was founded in 1922 and remained an underground organization until the end of WW II. During these years, many CPJ leaders were imprisoned in Japan or fell victim to the 1937–38 purges in the Soviet Union. Today, the CPJ has about 400,000 members and is represented in Japan’s upper house of parliament.
The CPJ files
The CPJ files cover the period 1919–1941 and include extensive documentation on the relations between the Soviet Communist Party and its counterparts in Japan, the Far East, Europe, and America. The collection contains, for example, the proceedings of CPJ conferences, the plenums of the Central Committee, and records of local organizations; documents of the Executive Committee of the COMINTERN (ECCI) and correspondence between the leaders of the CPJ and the ECCI and its Shanghai- and
This collection (fond 495, opis’ 127, 616 files) includes:
• Foreign policy of the USSR in the Far East
• International revolutionary organizations
• Japanese military occupation of China
• History of Communist Party of Japan
• History of Communist groups in USA and China
• Labor history and trade unions in Japan
• Shanghai and Vladivostok Bureaus of ECCI
• Communist University of the Labors of the East
• Japanese students in Moscow
• Collection of periodicals and newspapers
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