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 IThe Arrests
- Part IIThe Agents and the Bureau
- 11Daughter of the Revolution
- 12The Self-Made Bolshevik
- 13The Far Eastern Bureau
- 14From Bad to Better, and Back Again
- Part IIIThe Rueggs on Trial
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Index
14 - From Bad to Better, and Back Again
from Part II - The Agents and the Bureau
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 IThe Arrests
- Part IIThe Agents and the Bureau
- 11Daughter of the Revolution
- 12The Self-Made Bolshevik
- 13The Far Eastern Bureau
- 14From Bad to Better, and Back Again
- Part IIIThe Rueggs on Trial
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Summary
This chapter follows the activities of the FEB after 1930, when Moiseenko arrived in Shanghai with her son. It chronicles the many conflicts between FEB staff and the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and then shows how the FEB steadily gained influence over the CCP by recalling its leader to Moscow and by rigging elections to the Politburo. During this time, the Comintern’s commitment to Zhou Enlai as a Politburo member remained strong, and FEB members seem to have persuaded him not to resign when his protégé Gu Shunzhang turned traitor in April 1931. The far-reaching goals of the Comintern in China, via the FEB, help to explain why the Comintern was so anxious to ensure Rudnik and Moiseenko did not reveal their secrets to the Guomindang.
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- The Shanghai AgentsThe Soviet Plot to Start a Revolution in Interwar China, pp. 157 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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