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Kai-shek, Chiang - Military leader of the Chinese bourgeois nationalist Kuomintang during the Chinese revolution of 1925-27. On policy of Stalin and Bukharin, the Chinese Communist Party gave uncritical support to Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek was hailed as a great revolutionary. Once his power was secure he turned on the Communists, massacring party members and trade unionists in Shanghai in 1927. Kapp-Luettwitz Putsch - Occurred in 1920 and was the first attempt of the German counter-revolution to liquidate the Weimar Republic and its "democracy" by armed force. Despite the passivity of the Ebert Scheidemann government, this putsch was crushed by the elemental resistance of the workers. This putsch served to discredit both Scheidemann and Noske. Kautsky, Karl - (1854-1938) The foremost leader of the German Social Democracy and the Second International prior to the war. He opposed the revisionist theories of Bernstein until the war. In 1917 he participated in the founding of the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), supporting of the right wing. In 1920 the USPD split, more than half of it joining the KPD. The remainder, still called the USPD, became the German section of the Two-and-a-half International, so called because it stood midway between the Second and the Third. This collapsed in 1923, not long after most of the USPD, with Kautsky, rejoined the SPD and the Second International (1922). Throughout this period, Kautsky was an ardent revisionist and an opponent of the October Revolution, opposed to socialist revolution in Germany as well.Kerensky, Alexander - (1882 - 1970) An attorney and member of the Social Revolutionary Party. He became vice-chairman ofthe Petrograd Soviet, then bolted from its discipline to assume the minisrty of justice in the provisional government under Prince Lvov in March 1917. In May he took the post of minister of war and navy, which he continued to hold when he became premier in July. After the Kornilov putsch attemt he appointed himself commander-in-chief as well. He was thre outstanding representative of petty-bourgeois concilliationists. Fled Petrograd when the Bolsheviks took power. Kornilov, Lavr - (1870 - 1918) Czarist General. A Siberian Cossack who was in charge of the southwestern front in 1917, became Kerensky's commander-in-chief in September 1917, and led a counter-revolutionary putsch against Kerensky in September 1917. Arrested, he escaped to lead the counter-revolutionary forces until April 1918 when he was killed. KPD - Founded in Germany in 1918 by Spartacus League (see below) and the International Communists. Merged, with membership of 78,000, with the majority of USPD in 1920 to form United Communist Party (VKPD - later just KPD). Kun, Bela - 1886-1939. Joined Hungarian Social Democrats aged 16; joined Bolsheviks while prisoner of war in Russia; founded Hungarian CP 1918; head of Hungarian Soviet government March-June 1919. In exile in Russia, became Red Army commissar; supporter of ultra-left group, he was sent to Germany 1921 and inspired March Action. Worked in Comintern apparatus until 1937; arrested and killed without trial during Moscow frame-ups. Kuomintang (People's Party) - Chinese bourgeois nationalist party, founded by Sun Yat Sen in 1891, and led after 1926 by Chiang Kai-shek, who crushed the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27. Back to the Glossary of Marxist Terms
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