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Mikhail Borodin

1884 - 1951

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Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg, known by the alias Borodin (9 July 1884 – 29 May 1951), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent. He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT) in China during the 1920s. Born in a rural part of the Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Jewish family, Borodin joined the General Jewish Labour Bund at age sixteen, and then the Bolsheviks in 1903. After being arrested for participating in revolutionary activities, Borodin fled to America, attended Valparaiso University, started a family, and later established an English school for Russian Jewish immigrants in Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Borodin is the 41st most popular diplomat (down from 40th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Mikhail Borodin ranks 41 out of 90. Before him are Hans Blix, Édith Cresson, George Blake, Yukiya Amano, Dean Acheson, and Porfirio Rubirosa. After him are Richard Holbrooke, Friedrich Martens, Martin Luther, Amr Moussa, Richard Armitage, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Mikhail Borodin ranks 66. Before him are Drastamat Kanayan, Corrado Gini, Georges Duhamel, Rómulo Gallegos, Georg Lindemann, and Jean Paulhan. After him are Helene Deutsch, Joseph Boxhall, Clark L. Hull, Alexander Belyaev, Ivan Maisky, and Antoine Pevsner. Among people deceased in 1951, Mikhail Borodin ranks 57. Before him are Fritz Thyssen, François Georges-Picot, Émile Chartier, Kijūrō Shidehara, John Sloan, and Warner Baxter. After him are Yoshio Nishina, Osman Batur, Louis Jouvet, Ali Sami Yen, Géza Maróczy, and Henrietta Lacks.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Mikhail Borodin ranks 55 out of 368. Before him are Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Paul Baran (1926), Yevno Azef (1869), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), and Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512). After him are Otto Schmidt (1891), Lew Sapieha (1557), Dawid Janowski (1868), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Abba Kovner (1918), and Oscar Milosz (1877).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Belarus

Among diplomats born in Belarus, Mikhail Borodin ranks 1. 

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