ABSTRACT
From 1921 to 1927 the CCP championed Soviet efforts to renew the terms of the tsarist Russian unequal treaties. Previously, the close coordination between the Comintern's and the Soviet Commissariat of Foreign Affairs' (Narkomindel) policies in China during the 1920s was questioned, with one noted historian even comparing the USSR's "divergent policies" in China to "an acrobat juggling several balls in the air." 1 But the publication of the personal archives of perhaps the most important Comintern agent in China, Maring, has helped clarify that these two Soviet-funded organizations actually worked closely together. 2
