of Tannu-Tuva Khalid Bakdash, secretary of the Syrian Communist Party from 1936 until 1995 Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 1925 class Deng Xiaoping, paramount leader of the People's Republic of China, 1925 class Evangelista, Crisanto, founder of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930, class of 1928. Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, architect of Muslim national communism Hà Huy Tập, third General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Harry Haywood, leading African American member of the Communist Party USA Jane Golden, black American student who died during her time at KUTVA Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam, 1923 class Hasan Israilov, Chechen insurrectionist Sen Katayama of the American and Japanese Communist Parties Jomo Kenyatta, first indigenous head of state of Kenya Lê Hồng Phong, second General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Liu Shaoqi, President of the People's Republic of China, 1921 class Magomet Mamakaev, Chechen writer Tan Malaka of the Indonesian Communist Party Manabendra Nath Roy, helped found the Communist Parties of Mexico and India Muhammad Najati Sidqi, writer, activist in the Palestinian independence movement, from 1925 to 1928 Ja'far Pishevari, founder and chairman of communist Azerbaijan People's Government Salchak Toka, Tuvan government official Sbulawelani Shwala, leader of the Young Communist League of South Africa and Revolutionary writer Republic of South Africa Trần Phú, first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Wang Fanxi, prominent Chinese Trotskyist Yusuf Salman Yusuf, secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 to 1949 Nikolaos Zachariadis, General Secretary of Communist Party of Greece and chairman of Greek communist Provisional Democratic Government, 1947 to 1949 See also Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Communist University of the National Minorities of the West List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945) Chinese-Lenin School of Vladivostok "Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution: A Personal Account" by Yueh Sheng References Citations Sources Great Soviet Encyclopedia entry "The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East" speech by Joseph Stalin (Marxists Internet Archive) Comintern Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union Foreign relations of the Soviet Union Educational institutions established in 1921 1921 establishments in Russia Defunct universities and colleges in Russia Education in the Soviet Union Universities and colleges in Moscow