Book contents
- The Shanghai Agents
- Reviews
- The Shanghai Agents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Naming Conventions
- Cast of Characters
- Prologue
- Introduction: Summer 1990
- Part I The Arrests
- Part II The Agents and the Bureau
- Part III The Rueggs on Trial
- 15 The Global Left Steps In
- 16 The Shanghai Defense Committee and the Defense of Shanghai
- 17 The Defense Committee vs. the Guomindang
- 18 The Russian Method
- 19 Convicted
- 20 What To Do with the Boy?
- 21 Hard Times and Disappointment
- 22 Freedom
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Index
22 - Freedom
from Part III - The Rueggs on Trial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2026
Book contents
- The Shanghai Agents
- Reviews
- The Shanghai Agents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Naming Conventions
- Cast of Characters
- Prologue
- Introduction: Summer 1990
- Part I The Arrests
- Part II The Agents and the Bureau
- Part III The Rueggs on Trial
- 15 The Global Left Steps In
- 16 The Shanghai Defense Committee and the Defense of Shanghai
- 17 The Defense Committee vs. the Guomindang
- 18 The Russian Method
- 19 Convicted
- 20 What To Do with the Boy?
- 21 Hard Times and Disappointment
- 22 Freedom
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Summary
In 1937, Japanese aggression once more influenced Rudnik and Moiseenko’s story, because the Japanese attack on Nanjing in August led the Guomindang to release all political prisoners in accordance with the Soviet-brokered Second United Front with the CCP. Rudnik and Moiseenko tried to get back to the Soviet Union, but were delayed for nearly two years. They finally made it back to Moscow in 1939, just after the worst of Stalin’s Great Terror was ending. Even after they were home, they still had to wait until 1944 to finally be reunited with their son.
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- The Shanghai AgentsThe Soviet Plot to Start a Revolution in Interwar China, pp. 275 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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