Lenin's Comintern Revisited /

The Communist International (or 'Comintern') was launched in 1919 to promote worldwide extension of the 1917 workers' and peasants' revolution in Russia. During the Comintern's first years under the leadership of V.I. Lenin, it proposed and tested strategic and tactical conc...

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Main Author: Riddell, John (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 364.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Call Number: D410

Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • The Comintern Publishing Project
  • 1 Introduction: The Comintern Publishing Project
  • 2 The Second International: Birth and Death
  • 3 Toward a New International
  • 4 Founding the New International (1919)
  • 5 Achieving a Mass International (1919-1920)
  • Addendum: Theses on the Conditions of Admission to the Communist International
  • 6 National Freedom and the Baku Congress (1920)
  • 7 Advances and Setbacks (1920-1921)
  • 8 Impatience for Bolder Initiatives: The March Action (1921)
  • 9 'To the Masses': The Third World Congress (1921)
  • 10 Toward the United Front
  • 11 Adoption of the United-Front Policy (1921-1922)
  • 12 Party Organisation: Shaping a Policy
  • 13 Implementing International Centralism (1922-1923)
  • 14 The Communist Women's Movement
  • 15 Comintern Outreach: The Auxiliary Organisations
  • 16 Fascism: The Search for a Response
  • 17 For Global Black Liberation
  • 18 The Comintern in 1922: The Periphery Pushes Back
  • 19 The Soviet Republic and World Communism
  • 20 The Workers' Government - Evolution of a Concept
  • 21 The Comintern as a School of Strategy
  • 22 The Comintern and Asia 1919-1925: Fruits and Perils of the 'Bloc from Within'
  • 23 The Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
  • 24 Fateful Choices (1922-1923)
  • 25 The 'German October' of 1923: A Failed Bid for Workers' Power
  • 26 The Emergence of Stalinism
  • 27 Legacy of an International
  • References
  • Index.