| dc.description.abstract | The outbreak of the World War I inaugurated a split in international workers’ movement. The different attitudes
towards the war were reasons of a clash between respective Social Democratic Parties while the Second
International which was to unite these parties became a delusion. In October 1914 Lenin postulated the
establishing of a new proletarian International. Favourable conditions for this emerged as a result of the
victory of socialist revolution in Russia, of the revolutionary ferments in numerous countries, and the
appearance of communist parties in many countries of Europe, Asia, and America. An appeal of the eight communist
or labour parties to 39 revolutionary organizations and groups on the 24th of January 1919 became a starting-
point for the convocation of the Founders’ Congress. The First Congress took place in Moscow on the 2nd-6th of
March 1919. Then the establishing of the Communist International (otherwise called the Third International or
Comintern) was proclaimed. It was to become a world party divided into sections corresponding to the respective
countries and playing the part of the centralized headquarters of world revolution.
The new International under Lenin’s leadership broke with the Social Democratic tradition, and the ideology of
reformism. Integrating the adherents of revolution and proletariate dictatorship it proclaimed the victory of
communism all the world over as the final aim of the workers’ movement. Lenin was an initiator, promotor, creator
of the program and leader of Comintern.
The Second Congress was the most important from the point of view of the program, tactical, and organizing
principles. It proclaimed among others 21 conditions of the admission to Comintern. These made an accession to
Comintern impossible for the parties and organizations which did not accept the principles of revolutionary
Marxism. During the Third Congress the Communist International summoned all the proletarians notwithstanding
their party or organization membership to make a uniform front of the working classes. The Sixth Congress
proclaimed the program, and the new version of the statute. The Seventh Congress in 1935 played the decisive part
in the activity of Comintern. The uniform Popular Front was proclaimed then and new principles of the strategy,
and. tactics of international workers’ movement were worked out.
The Communist International was dissolved on the 10th of June 1943. | en_EN |
