Raden Darsono Notosudirdjo Papers

Letters from Raden Darsono Notosudirdjo to his son Alam Darsono and Pop Stam, the wife of Alam Darsono 1945, 1950-1975; letters from Raden Darsono to Mohammad Rasjidi and Mohammad Hatta 1974; memoirs from and written interviews with Raden Darsono 1968, 1975 and n.d. Born in Pati, Java 1893, died in Semarang, Java 1976; journalist and editor of 'Sinar Hindia' 1921; propagandist of Sarekat Islam; member, later on president of the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI, Indonesian Communist Party) 1920-1925; journey through Siberia to Western Europe 1921-1923; represented the PKI at the third Congress of the Comintern in Moscow 1921; remained abroad for nearly two years, during which he worked for several months at the Comintern's bureau in Berlin; spoke at a congress of the Dutch Communist Party in Groningen 1921; returned to Moscow 1922 and afterwards to Indonesia 1923; arrested 1925 and expelled from Indonesia 1926; by way of Singapore and China he returned to Soviet Russia where, under the pseudonym of Samin, he worked for the Comintern; elected as an alternate member of the ECCI 1928; expelled from the Comintern 1931; went to the Netherlands 1935; returned to Indonesia 1950; became after breaking with communism an advisor at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1960.