TIL there was a strong movement of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchis… before the KMT and the CCP became the dominant forces instead.
@clacke What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Russia ? My understanding is that Soviet Union played major role in all communist revolutions in Asia.
The Chinese revolution in 1911 was a social democrat revolution run by people who were partially trained by the Soviets, and as a result both sides of the Chinese Civil War, which resulted in today's split between an eventually democratic Chinese government in Taipei and a still authoritarian Chinese government in Beijing, were partially trained by the Soviets.