Based on the Comintern archives in the Russian Center for Preservation and the Study of Documents of Contemporary History (RTsKhIDNI) in Moscow, this article explores Jiang Jingguo's student years in the Soviet Union by focusing on his intellectual, romantic and political life. It is also the first study to reveal his relationship with Feng Funeng (Feng Yuxiang's daughter) and the meeting minutes of his application for candidate membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In a word, this study tries to present Jiang Jingguo as a human being, rather than as a flawless leader or a saint. Jiang Jingguo was a serious student. His progress in Russian might not have met his father's expectations, but his father was very happy with his intellectual progress. Also, he actively participated in various political activities and even became a Trotskyist for a time. Considering his father's encouragement to devote himself to revolution as well as the influence of his Soviet education and his communist friends, I argue that his denouncement of his father after the purge in April 1927 very likely reflected his sentiments. Compared with Jiang Jingguo's memoirs written after his return to China, the archives cannot sustain many of Jiang's statements. In this article I discuss the different versions of his memoirs and the possible easons for the discrepancies.