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.

From the Fifth to the Seventh World Congress

Several international organizations sponsored by Comintern:

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• Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern)
• Red Peasant International (Krestintern)
• International Red Aid (MOPR)
• Communist Youth International
• Red Sports International (Sportintern)