ABSTRACT
The Comintern, or international agency of the Soviet Communist Party, was set up by the Bolsheviks to carry Marxist revolution throughout the world. Searches of the Comintern archives have not unearthed any documentary evidence of Ho Chi Minh's registration, although he may well have attended political meetings at University of the Toilers of the East. Ho's links with China were to dominate his life for the next twenty years, until he finally returned to Vietnam in 1945. Nevertheless, at the time of Ho's arrival in Canton, China was still in a state of upheaval. Phan Boi Chau's arrest and abduction to Vietnam worked in any case to Ho's long-term advantage. 'The League,' as it was often known, also gave its name to a newsletter which spread news to Vietnamese exiles in Canton and beyond. Under the centuries-old Chinese imprint, Confucianism also had a profound influence in Vietnam. Confucian influence can be traced through the later career of Ho Chi Minh.
