His boss was a member of Communist Party and Li was influenced in accepting communism, taking part actively in the struggles for Chinese labour rights in France.

Being the most important labour work leader there, Li greatly increased the number of CCP members and perfected methods of organisation.

It was at this time that Li showed his great talent in labour work and organisation in conjunction with Liu Shaoqi, who later became his deputy.

The Communists at Anyuan greatly valued education but they did not mechanically evangelise Communism like a missionary cramming a religious belief into a worker's head.

Although Xiang Zhongfa, who later became general secretary of the CCP, was the top leader at that time, Li was the man who actually made the decisions.

Although the uprising proved to be imprudent and poorly planned, and its failure unavoidable, Li was thrust into the central stage of the CCP for his prominence in labour work and his courage under fire.

At the 6th National Congress of CCP held in Moscow, Li's old friend Xiang Zhongfa was elected as General Secretary with the support from the Comintern and the Soviet Union.

When the Far East Bureau of the Comintern issued an order for anti-rightism and blamed the CCP for not being active enough in 1929, Xiang protested the decision.

But the Comintern expressed its discontent, stating that it was working out systemic policies for the Chinese revolution and that the CCP should concentrate on the uprising in one or several provinces instead.

In July 1930, the communist army under the leadership of Li Lisan captured Changsha in Hunan province, but KMT troops defeated his forces just a few days later.

Moreover, when Wang Ming and Kang Sheng came back to Moscow as representatives of the CCP to the Comintern, they persecuted Li by every means available.

At the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, Li was appointed as chief representative of the CCP to the military arbitration panel consisting of members from the KMT and the United States.

Li was dedicated to his old cause and brought forth guidance on democratic management measures in industry, which was later called the Constitution of Anshan Steel Mill by Mao.

During the Korean War, he was appointed as the secretary general of Anti Air Defence Council ranking as vice-premier, due to his WWII anti-air attack experience during his stay in Moscow.

Although his wife, Lisa Kishkin, handed in her Russian passport and took Chinese nationality to show her loyalty to her husband and his country, there still was no way to ease the situation.

[citation needed] Supposedly unable to face this humiliation any more, Li was said by his tormentors to have committed suicide by taking sleeping pills after finishing a final letter to Mao.

He recalled arguing with Li Lisan, who wanted an extra pill each night as the struggle sessions were affecting his sleep.

It's simply laughable.In 1980 the central Organisation Department finally allowed Li Lisan's family to read his autopsy report.

It listed his height incorrectly by 15 cm and contained other errors which added to the family's doubts over the accepted version of Li's death.