Lenin’s Comintern Revisited

John Riddell is the founder and longtime general editor of the Comintern Publishing Project, which since 1983 has revolutionized the study of the Communist International, making its ideas and experiences available to new generations of activists and scholars.

• 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

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