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The Communist International
1919 – 1943

Sections of the Comintern

Introduction

Founding of the Communist International, Arthur Ransome 1919

Writings of the Early Comintern

The Communist International: Organ of the E.C.C.I.

Biblography: Press of the Communist International (Until February 1st, 1921)
Appeal to Workers and Sailors, The Group of English Speaking Communists in Russia, 1919
Bela Kun, in Pravda 1918
To the Workers and Soldiers of the Allied Countries, Karl Liebknecht 1918
Rosa Luxemburg, 1918-1919
Revolution in Germany, 1918-1923

International Press Correspondence The international news service for the Communist International printed in multiple languages for use by all the worlds communist newspapers and journals

Bibliography: Press of the Communist International (Till February 1st, 1921).

Glossary of auxiliary organizations of the Comintern [from John Riddell]

Comintern Publishing Project [John Riddell and Mike Taber]

First Congress, March 1919

Reports of the Congress

The Third, Communist International, Lenin, 4 March 1919
Won and Recorded, Lenin, 5 March 1919
The Founding of the Communist Interntional, Lenin, 6 March 1919
Great Times, Trotsky, 6 March 1919
The Third International and its place in History, Lenin, 15 April 1919

From the First to the Second World Congress (Trotsky)

Circular Letter on Parliamentarism and the Soviets, September 1, 1919
Capitalist England - Socialist Russia, (to the British soldiers) 1919
Open Letter from the Comintern to the IWW, Jan 1920
The Third International, by Boris Souvarine 1920
The Two Internationals, by R. Palme Dutt 1920

Young Communist International Archive (1919-1943)

Preparing for the Second Congress, Lenin (June/July 1920)

Second Congress, July-August 1920

Lenin’s Speeches

Lenin (August 1920)

Lenin's Report on the Second Congress

Congress of Peoples of the East, Baku, September 1920

Summary
Stenographic Record. Brian Pearce’s original translation in PDF format here
To the German and French workers on Second Congress, 24 Sep 1920

From the Second to the Third World Congress (Trotsky)

Report of Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
Debate: Resolved: "that the terms of the Third International are inacceptable to the revolutionary socialists of the world", James Oneal vs. Robert Minor, 1921
Telegram from E.C.C.I. to the United Communist Party of Germany
The Downfall of Levi, Radek
Excerpts from the Official Statement of the E.C.C.I. on Comrades Serrati and Levy, Zinoviev
Theses: The Communist International and the International Organization of the Trade Unions (Struggle Against the Yellow Trade Union International of Amsterdam), Zinoviev
Withdrawal of Five Members of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Germany

Third Congress, June 22-July 12 1921

Moscow The English language daily publication reporting on the 3rd Congress. 42 issues.

Special collection of material from the Third Congress, translated by John Riddell

Agenda for the Third Congress of the Communist International

Trotsky’s Reports on the Third Congress

Lenin (July-August 1921)

Profintern History Archive (1921-1937)

Fourth Congress, November 1922

Selected Documents and Speeches [including new translations of documents from this Congress by John Riddell]
Report on Fourth Congress, Trotsky, December 28 1922
The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern, J. T. Murphy, March 1923
Theses on the Bolshevisation of the Parties of the Comintern, 1925 (PDF)
Documents 1923-1928 (PDF)

Lenin (November-December 1922)

The First Five Years of the Comintern, Vol 2 (1921-1923), Trotsky

The Second AND Third Internationals AND The Vienna Union, Report of Conference, Berlin, from 2nd April, 1922.

Fifth Congress, June/July 1924

Theses on Tactics in the Trade Unions, Fifth Congress
The Communist Party of Poland, Speech by Stalin
The fight against Right and "Ultra-left" deviations, Stalin, Jan 22 1926;
The Anglo-Russian Unity Committee, Stalin, July 15 1926;
The Anglo-Russian Unity Committee, Stalin, Aug 7 1926;
The Situation in Britain, Trotsky;
The Struggle for Peace and the Anglo-Russian Committee, Trotsky;
Through What Stage are we Passing?, Trotsky June 1924;
Report on National and Colonial Questions, Ho Chi Minh
On the Australian Labour Party, Dora Montefiore
“Socialism in One Country”

Report on the Activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (for the Period March-November 1926) by the Secretariat, ECCI

Sixth Congress, July/August 1928

The Programme of the Communist International, and Statutes
The Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies
The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of Communists
The South African Question, Resolution adopted by ECCI
Report on Sixth Congress of Comintern, Stalin July 1928
The Right Danger in the German Communist Party, Stalin 1928
The Communist Party of the USA, Stalin 1929
Criticism of the Draft Program of the Communist International, Trotsky
(The Third International after Lenin)
“Third Period”
“The Programme Discussion in the Communist International” by Alexander Vatlin

The Practice of Bourgeois Class-Justice in the Struggle Against the Revolutionary Movement of the Workers, the National Minorities and the Colonial and Semi-Colonial Peoples, International Class War Prisoners Aid, 1928

Ten Years of the Communist International, by I. Komor 1929

Tenth Plenum ECCI, July 1929

Communist International Editorial: The Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I., Communist International, Vol. 6, No. 18, August 1, 1929
First and Second Sessions [Reports by O. Kuusinen and D. Z. Manuilsky]
Third and Fourth Sessions [Discussion of reports by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
Fifth and Sixth Sessions [Discussion of reports by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
Seventh and Eighth Sessions [Discussion of reports by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
The Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I.: Organisation necessary to carry out decisions, [Letter of the Organisation Department of the E.C.C.I. to all Communist Parties, endorsed at the session of the Polit-Secretariat, September 2nd, 1929] Communist International, Vol. 6, No. 26, December 1, 1929
Ninth and Tenth Sessions [Discussion of reports by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
Eleventh Session [Speech of Molotov]
Twelveth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sessions [Discussion of reports by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Sessions [Concluding Speeches by Kuusinen and Manuilsky]
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Sessions [Reports of Thalmann and Lozovsky]
Nineteenth Session [Discussion of Reports of Thalmann and Lozovsky]
Twentieth and Twenty-First Sessions [Discussion of Reports of Thalmann and Lozovsky; Concluding Speeches of Thalmann and Lozovsky]
Theses and Resolutions
Decision of the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the appeal of Jay Lovestone, member of the E.C.C.I., against his expulsion from the Communist Party of the U.S. of A., Daily Worker, July 29, 1929
On the Upgrade: Results of the Tenth Plenum, Communist International, Vol. 6, No. 20, September 1, 1929
Bring the decisions of the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. to the Masses, Communist International, Vol. 6, No. 22, October 1, 1929
The Tenth Plenum of the ECCI, The Communist, [CPUSA] Vol. 8, No. 10, November 1929
The Tenth Plenum of the ECCI: A Political Analysis, by Will Herberg, Part I, (Revolutionary Age, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1, 1929); Part II, (Revolutionary Age, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 15, 1929); Part III, (Revolutionary Age, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1, 1929); Part IV, (Revolutionary Age, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 15, 1929); Part V, (Revolutionary Age, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1, 1930)

Eleventh Plenum ECCI, March-April 1931

The Communist Parties and the Crisis of Capitalism, by D. Z. Manuilsky [Speech delivered on the First Item of the Agenda of the XI Plenum, together with the speech in reply to the discussion on this subject]
Urgent Questions of the Day, [Inemployed Movement; Factory Organization; Fluctuating Membership] O. Piatnitsky
War Preparations Against the Soviet Union [Speech of Marcel Cachin, followed by discussion with speeches by Bratkovsky, Rust, Manner, Schwartz, Browder, Thalmann and Arnot]
Theses, Resolutions and Decisions
The World Crisis and the International Class Struggle (An outline of the debates and decisions of the XI Plenum of the E.C.C.I. held in March-April, 1931)
The XI Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, (Extracts from report to 13th Plenum, CC CPUSA), by William W. Weinstone, The Communist, Vol. 10, No. 9, October 1931
How to Take Advantage of the Extrordinarily Favorable Situation; How to Overcome Backwardness, (Results of the XI Plenum of the E.C.C.I.), Communist International, Vol. 9, No. 19, October 15, 1932