MIA: History: International: Communist International: Second Congress 1920
Minutes of the
Second Congress of the
Communist International
Petrograd, July 19 – August 7 1920
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.
Foreword
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
Evening Session of July 29
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
Evening Session of August 2
- Discussion on Parliamentarism (Lenin, Bordiga, Bukharin et al)
- Theses on the Communist Parties and Parliamentarism
Ninth Session, August 3
Evening Session of August 3
Tenth Session, August 4
Evening Session of August 4
- Report and Discussion on Statutes of the Communist International
- The Statutes of the Communist International
Eleventh Session, August 5
Thirteenth Session, August 6
Fifteenth Session, August 7
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