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K. McDermott – J. Agnew. The Comintern.

Biblioteca / 1990-1999

Kevin McDermott – Jeremy Agnew. The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin.

Londres: Macmillan, 1996.

320 páginas.

Contents

Dates of Comintern Congresses and ECCI Plena

Introduction

1 – COMINTERN IN THE ERA OF LENIN, 1919-23

Dictatorship or Democracy?

Universalisation of Bolshevism

United Workers’ Front

2 – BOLSHEVISING THE COMINTERN, 1924-8

Bolshevisation from Above

Bolshevisation from Below

Origins of the Third Period

3 – STALIN AND THE THIRD PERIOD, 1928-33

Defeat of the ‘Right-wing Deviation’

Soviet Determinants of the Third Period

Theory and Practice of Social Fascism

4 – POPULAR FRONT AND STALINIST TERROR, 1934-9

Origins of the Popular Front

The Popular Front: Contradictions and Failure

Comintern and the Terror

5 – COMINTERN IN EAST ASIA, 1919-39 [written by Michael Weiner]

Comintern and the Colonial Question

China: The First United Front

The Rise of the ‘Red Compradors’

6 – FROM WAR TO DISSOLUTION, 1939-43

Nazi-Soviet Pact and ‘Imperialist’ War

Dissolution of the Comintern

LEGACY OF THE COMINTERN

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