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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker Continue reading » One Bad ...

June 28 was the anniversary of the two bookends of World War I, in which it is estimated more than 15 million people died. On that date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in ...

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, ...