MIA: History: International: Communist International: Second Congress 1920

Minutes of the
Second Congress of the
Communist International
Petrograd, July 19 – August 7 1920

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First Published: Publishing House of the Communist International, 1921;
Source: Second Congress of the Communist International. Minutes of the Proceedings. Volume One and Two;
Published: by New Park Publications, 1977;
Translated: by Bob Archer;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

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Foreword

Summonsing of the Congress

Proceedings

First Session, July 19

• Zinoviev's Opening Address
• Theses on the International Situation and the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International (Lenin)
• Greetings

Second Session, July 23

• Standing Orders and Agenda
• Discussion on the role of the Communist Party in the proletarian revolution (Opened by Zinoviev)

Third Session, July 24

• Procedural
• Discussion on role of Communist Party continued (reply by Zinoviev)
• Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution

Fourth Session, July 25

• Report on National and Colonial Question (Lenin)
• Supplementary Theses on the National and Colonial Question (Maring)
• Discussion, America and the Negro question (John Reed)

Fifth Session, July 28

• Discussion on National and Colonial Question
• Discussion, on the Jewish Question (Frumkina)
• Theses on the national and colonial question

Sixth Session, July 29

• Conditions for entry into the Communist International (Zinoviev)
• Discussion on Conditions for entry

Evening Session of July 29

• Discussion on Conditions for entry continued

Seventh Session, July 30

• Procedural
• Discussion of Conditions of Admission to the International (Rakovsky)
• Theses on the Conditions of Admission to the International (Zinoviev)

Eighth Session, August 2

• Languages to be used at Congress
• Report on Parliamentarism (Bukharin)

Evening Session of August 2

• Discussion on Parliamentarism (Lenin, Bordiga, Bukharin et al)
• Theses on the Communist Parties and Parliamentarism

Ninth Session, August 3

• Greetings
• Discussion on the Trade Unions (Radek)

Evening Session of August 3

• Greetings
• Continuation of discussion on the Trade Unions

Tenth Session, August 4

• Theses on the Agrarian Question (Meyer)
• Discussion on the Agrarian Question

Evening Session of August 4

• Report and Discussion on Statutes of the Communist International
• The Statutes of the Communist International

Eleventh Session, August 5

• Report from Credentials Committee
• On the formation of Soviets (Zinoviev)

Thirteenth Session, August 6

• On Entry into the British Labour Party
• On conditions of entry into the Communist International

Fifteenth Session, August 7

• Closing Discussion
• Trotsky's Address on the World Situation
• Zinoviev's Closing Address

Documents of the Congress

• Manifesto of the Second Congress (First edition of English translation in PDF format)
• Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
• Theses on the conditions under which Workers Soviets may be formed
• Theses on the Trade Union Movement and Factory committees
• Theses on the Agrarian Question

Delegates to the Second World Congress

• List by Country

 

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