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The Statutes of the Communist International

: A Comparison Between the Texts Adopted at Its World Congresses of 1920, 1924, and 1928

Authors

  • Érick Fiszuk de Oliveira Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-5487.v16i16p133-154

Keywords:

Communist International (Comintern), World Revolution, Left-Wing Parties, Soviet Union, Political History (20th Century), International Communist Movement

Abstract

The internal organizational structure of the Communist International (Comintern) was almost completely unknown for those who observed it from outside. Nevertheless, it was strongly influenced by the backstage political struggles, even those happened in the Soviet Communist Party, and by the geopolitical turning points promoted by the Moscow government. The three Statutes of the Comintern adopted in the 2nd (1920), 5th (1924), and 6th (1928) World Congresses cannot exhaust the analysis of the organs composed in that institution, but it brings up an idea about how structuring, unlike to the common sense, radically changed as the Kremlin power disputes continued. In this article, I exposed the results of an exhaustive comparison between these three Statutes, connecting their contents to the political context of each period and pointing out the text alterations as clues about how the concepts of Communist international movement and of world revolution changed.

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2020-10-05

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The Statutes of the Communist International: : A Comparison Between the Texts Adopted at Its World Congresses of 1920, 1924, and 1928. (2020). Revista Angelus Novus, 16(16). https://revistas.usp.br/ran/article/view/172156