Comintern

The Comintern (from Russian Коммунистичекий Интернационал (Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional) ? Communist International), also known as the Third International, was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919 by Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik), which 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 represented a split from the Second International in response to the latter's failure to form a unified coalition against the First World War, which the Third Internationalists regarded as a bourgeois imperialist war.

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Russian - Communist - Lenin - Russian Communist Party (bolshevik) - Second International - First World War

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The Comintern held seven World Congresses, the first in March 1919 and the last in 1935, until it was dissolved in 1943. Groups coming from the tradition of Left Communism today recognise only the first two congresses, and groups coming out of the Bolshevik Leninist or Trotskyist movement recognise the decisions of the first four only. Communist Parties of the Stalinist or Maoist persuasion, however, recognize all seven congresses.

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1919 - 1935 - 1943 - Left Communism - Bolshevik - Leninist - Trotskyist - Stalinist - Maoist

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