Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
After the purge of Karl Radek by Joseph Stalin, Mif was appointed as President of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, and then Vice Minister of the Eastern Department of Comintern. For his service and loyalty, Wang became Mif's protégé. Along with other activists such as Zhang Wentian, Bo Gu and Wang Jiaxiang, Wang Ming founded the 28 Bolsheviks group. They labeled themselves as orthodox communists. During his time in Moscow, Wang was involved in suppressing an organization of Chinese Trotskyists that had sprung up in the university.