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The focus of Brigitte Studer’s Travellers of the World Revolution is not the leadership and changing politics of the Comintern but the history of its rank and file. A soccer team consisting of members ...

During those five days the meeting became the First Congress of the Third International1, also known as the Communist International, abbreviated to Comintern. That event marked a key point in the ...

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Historian Chabal (France) offers an enthralling intellectual biography of “communist polymath” and historian Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to English-Jewish Continue reading » The ...

That old Sleeping Beauty, the Communist International,* came back to life last week. At a secret meeting “somewhere in Poland,” delegates from nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize “the ...

Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920. (AP) In 1985, almost two-fifths of the world’s population lived in countries governed by communist parties. From the Baltics to ...

We continue the series of publications dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Russian revolution. Today we would like to talk about the founding of the Third “Communist” ...

64. Under the influence of “Third Period” policy embraced at the Sixth Congress of the Comintern in 1928, the Communist Parties were instructed to replace their adaptation to the trade unions, ...