Communist International
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The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State."
The Comintern was founded after the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference in which Vladimir Lenin had organized the "Zimmerwald Left" against those who refused to approve any statement explicitly endorsing socialist revolutionary action, and after the 1916 dissolution of the Second International.
The Comintern had seven World Congresses between 1919 and 1935. It also had thirteen "Enlarged Plenums" of its governing Executive Committee, which had much the same function as the somewhat larger and more grandiose Congresses. The Comintern was officially dissolved by Joseph Stalin in 1943.
See also
- International relations (1919–1939)
- Executive Committee of the Communist International
- Communist University of the Toilers of the East
- Communist University of the National Minorities of the West
- Communist International (magazine)
- Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
- Anti-Comintern Pact
- International Entente Against the Third International
- Spanish Civil War
- International Working Union of Socialist Parties ("2 and a half International" founded by Austro-Marxists)
- International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
- Communist Workers International
- International Communist Opposition
- International Lenin School
- Stalinism
Lists:
- List of delegates of the 1st Comintern congress
- List of delegates of the 2nd Comintern congress
- List of left-wing internationals
- List of Communist Parties
- List of members of the Comintern
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