Korean Socialist Party | |
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Founder | Yi Dong-hwi[1] |
Founded | May 11, 1918[1][2] |
Dissolved | January, 1921[1] |
Merger of | Korean Democratic Corps[3] |
Succeeded by | Korean Communist Party |
Headquarters | Kalinina 18, Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Russia[4] |
Newspaper | Jayujong[5] |
Armed wing | Korean Red Guards[1][5] Korean Democratic Corps[3] |
Ideology | Socialism Left wing nationalism |
International affiliation | Comintern[1][5] |
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Hangul | 한인사회당 | ||||||
Hanja | 韓人社會黨 | ||||||
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Russian name | |||||||
Russian | Корейская социалистическая партия |
The Korean Socialist Party (Korean: 한인사회당) was a socialist party of Korea.[1] The party was founded in 1918 in Khabarovsk, Soviet Russia.[1][2] In April 1919, the party merged with the Korean Democratic Corps (대한신민단; 大韓新民團) at the second representative congress of Korean Socialist Party.[3][5] And in 1921, the party merged with Korean communist groups of Irkutsk and was renamed as the Korean Communist Party.[5]
The establishment of the party was supported by the local Bolshevik authority in the Russian Far East, represented by the likes of Alexander Krasnoshchyokov and Alexandra Kim.