Editing Grigori Voitinsky (section)

{{Short description|Russian communist official (1893–1953)}}
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| name                = Grigori Voitinsky<br>Григорий Войтинский
| image               = G.N. Voitrngsky.jpg
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| birth_name          = Grigori Zarkhin
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1893|04|17|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Nevel (town)|Nevel]], [[Vitebsk Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1953|06|11|1893|04|17|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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| order               = Head of the Far Eastern Bureau
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| party               = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU)
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'''Grigori Naumovich Voitinsky''', born '''Zarkhin''' ({{Langx|ru|Григорий Наумович Войтинский}}; 17 April 1893 – 11 June 1953) was a Soviet [[Communist International]] (Comintern) official. He was sent to [[China]] in 1920 as a senior advisor to contact the top prominent Chinese communists such as [[Chen Duxiu]], just before the formation of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP). Voitinsky is considered to be the "chief architect" in founding the CCP.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dirlik |first=Arif |url=https://archive.org/details/originsofchinese00dirl |title=The Origins of Chinese Communism |date=1989 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-505454-5 |pages=191 |language=en}}</ref>

He was born on 17 April 1893 in [[Nevel (town)|Nevel]] to a [[Russian Jewish]] family. In 1918, he joined the [[Bolshevik Party]]. He took an active part in the [[Far Eastern Front in the Russian Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yoshihiro |first=Ishikawa |title=The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party |date=2012-01-31 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=978-0-231-50416-4 |location= |doi=10.7312/ishi15808 |jstor=10.7312/ishi15808}}</ref>