3rd World Congress of the Communist International

The 3rd World Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) was held in Moscow on 22 June–12 July 1921. The third official meeting of the Communist International included delegations from more than 50 different national structures and took place in the back-drop of two major events; the failure of the German revolution and the introduction of New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia.[1]

3rd World Congress of the Communist International
BeginsJune 22, 1921 (1921-06-22)
EndsJuly 12, 1921 (1921-07-12)
Location(s)Moscow
Country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Previous event2nd Congress
Next event4th Congress
Lenin giving a speech to the delegates of the Third World Congress of the Communist International

The main language of the congress was German, with three further working languages: French, English and Russian (of the three, French being predominant).[2]

Agenda

The agenda was circulated in several languages from March 1921:[3]

  1. Report of the executive committee.
  2. The world economic crisis and the new rôle of the Communist International.
  3. Tactics of the Communist International during the revolution.
  4. The period of transition (partial actions and the final revolutionary struggle).
  5. The campaign against the Yellow Trade Union International of Amsterdam.
  6. The International Council of Red Trade Unions and the Communist International.
  7. The internal structure of the Communist Parties, their methods of action, and the essence of that action.
  8. The internal structure of the Communist International—and its relations with the affiliated parties.
  9. The Eastern question.
  10. The Italian Socialist Party and the Communist International. (Appeal of the Italian Socialist Party against the decision of the executive committee.)
  11. The K.A.P.D. and the Communist International. (Appeal of the V.K.P.D. against the decision of the executive committee.)
  12. The women's movement.
  13. The Young Communist movement.
  14. Election of the executive committee, and designation of its place of session.
  15. Miscellaneous.

Delegates

There were delegates from the following countries.[4]

CountryPartyNo.
Argentina Communist Party of Argentina 2
Armenia Communist Party of Armenia 8
Azerbaijan Communist Party of Azerbaijan 6
Austria Communist Party of Austria 7
Poalei Zion 14
Australia Communist Party of Australia 4
Baku Young Communist International 1
Eastern Bureau 2
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Communist Party of Bashkiria 2
Belgium Socialist Revolutionaries 2
Young Communist International 1
Communist Party of Belgium 2
Britain Communist Party of Great Britain 14
Socialist Party 1
Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation 1
Bukhara Communist Party of Bukhara 7
Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party 19
Young Communist International 1
Canada Socialist Party of Canada 1
China Communist Party of China 1
Young Communist International 1
Constantinople Communist Party of Turkey 1
Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 27
Young Communist International 2
Denmark Communist Party of Denmark 6
Egypt Communist Party of Egypt 1
Estonia Communist Party of Estonia 5
Estonian Independent Socialist Workers' Party 2
Young Communist International 1
Far Eastern Republic Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) 1
Young Communist International 1
Finland Communist Party of Finland 30
France Communist Party of France 8
Syndicalists 9
Young Communist International 3
Syndicalist Minority 11
Fünfkirchen Socialist Party 3
Georgia Communist Party of Georgia 11
Young Communist International 1
Germany Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) 5
United Communist Party of Germany 25
Young Communist International 8
women 1
United Communist Party of Germany (opposition) 2
Greece Communist Party of Greece 3
Hungary Communist Party of Hungary 12
Young Communist International 1
India 4
Young Communist International 1
Iran Communist Party of Iran 5
Ireland Communist Party of Ireland 2
Italy Communist Party of Italy 21
Young Communist International 4
Socialist Party of Italy 4
Java Communist Union of the Indies 1
Khiva Young Communist International 1
Khirgizia Communist Party of Kirghizia 1
Korea Communist Party of Korea 1
Latvia Communist Party of Latvia 11
Young Communist International 1
Lithuania Communist Party of Lithuania 9
Young Communist International 2
Luxemburg Communist Party of Luxemburg 4
Socialist Party of Luxemburg 1
Young Communist International 1
Mexico Communist Party of Mexico 1
Young Communist International 1
Mongolia Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1
Near East Young Communist International 1
Netherlands Communist Party of the Netherlands 5
Young Communist International 1
Norway Norwegian Labour Party 11
Young Communist International 1
Communist Party of Norway 1
Palestine Communist Party of Palestine 1
Poale Zion 1
Poland Communist Party of Poland 20
Bund 3
Romania Communist Party of Romania 10
Young Communist International 4
Russia Communist Party of Russia (Bolshevik) 72
Young Communist International 4
South Africa International Socialist League 1
Sweden Communist Party of Sweden 15
Young Communist International 3
Switzerland Communist Party of Switzerland 13
Young Communist International 2
Spain Communist Party of Spain 5
Communist Workers Party of Spain 4
Syndicalists 5
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Tatarstan Regional Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) 1
Turkey Communist Party of Turkey 4
Turkestan Communist Party of Russia (Bolshevik) 4
Revolutionary League 4
Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine 22
United States of America United Communist Party of America 10
Young Communist International 2
Japanese Communist Group 1
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Byelorussia 2
Yugoslavia Communist Party of Yugoslavia 10
Young Communist International 1

References

  1. Vania Bambirra; Theotonio dos Santos (1980). La estrategia y la táctica socialistas de Marx y Engels a Lenin. Ediciones Era. p. 186. ISBN 978-968-411-051-9.
  2. To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. BRILL. 13 February 2015. p. 47. ISBN 978-90-04-28803-4.
  3. "Third Congress of the Communist International". No. Vol. 1, No.1 May 1921. Communist Party of Great Britain. The Communist Review. 1921.
  4. Riddell, John, ed. (2015). To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. London: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-28803-4.
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