Duncan Hallas. The Comintern.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 – The Beginnings

Social Democracy in 1914 • The Rising Tide • Democracy and Dictatorship

2 – The Mass Parties

The Twenty-One Conditions • The Role of the Party • “No Compromises, No Maneuvers” • The British Communist Party and the British Labor Party • The Peasants and the Colonial World • Women and Revolution

3 – The Ebb

The Italian Debacle • Germany: The March Action • Toward the United Front • The Fourth World Congress • International Maneuvers

4 – 1923: The Crucial Year

Defeat in Bulgaria • The German October • The Reaction in Russia

5 – Left Oscillation—Right Turn

Petty-Bourgeois “Allies” • The British General Strike • The Chinese Revolution

6 – The Third Period

The New Line • “After Hitler, Our Turn”

7 – The Terror and the People’s Front

The People’s Front in France • The Spanish Revolution • The Last Spasm 1939–43

8 – The Legacy of the Comintern

Chronology