Communist Third International

Examples of Communist Third International in the following topics:

• The Socialist Presence

  • After Vladimir Lenin's success in Russia, he invited the Socialist Party to join the Communist Third International.
  • The expelled members formed the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and the Socialist party was reduced to one third of its original size.

• Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

  • As such, the U.S. considered it a priority to rid it of any influences from the communist Eastern Bloc.
  • The next year, the Organization of American States was created in April 1948 during the Ninth International Conference of American States held in Bogotá.
  • The 26th of July Movement later reformed along communist lines, becoming the Communist Party in October 1965.
  • After numerous attacks, he finally arrested the MIR and Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) members of Congress.
  • Approximately two-thirds of 758,000–866,000 of the Jews expelled or who fled from Arab lands after 1948 were absorbed and naturalized by the State of Israel.

• The Peace Accords and the Legacy of Defeat

  • As a result of the accord, the International Control Commission (ICC) was replaced by International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) to carry out the agreement.
  • In March 1973, Nixon implied that the United States would intervene militarily if the communist side violated the ceasefire.
  • Thousand of refugees streamed southward, ahead of the main communist onslaught.
  • The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years.
  • They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable.

• Anarchism

  • The International Workingmen's Association, often called the "First International," was an international organization that aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist, and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  • The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, who sought to, "replace the privilege and authority of the State," with the, "free and spontaneous organization of labor."
  • Although it had initially been conceived as a one-off event, by the following year, the celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day had become firmly established as an international worker's holiday.

• Indochina: The Background to War

  • At the International Geneva Conference on July 21, 1954, the new socialist French government and the Viet Minh made an agreement that was denounced by the government of Vietnam and by the United States, but which effectively gave the Communists control of North Vietnam above the 17th parallel.
  • A dramatic shift occurred in American policy after the victory of Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China in the Chinese Civil War.
  • In May 1950, after the capture of Hainan Island by Chinese Communist forces, U.S.
  • The prospect of a communist dominated Southeast Asia was enough to spur the U.S. to support France, so that the spread of Soviet-allied communism could be contained.
  • The original caption of this photo reads: "A French Foreign Legionnaire goes to war along the dry rib of a rice paddy, during a recent sweep through communist-held areas in the Red River Delta, between Haiphong and Hanoi.

• Red Scare

  • A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), the Bolsheviks split from the party’s other socialist faction, the Mensheviks, in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • In a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, collectively known as the Russian Revolution, the Tsarist autocracy was dismantled and replaced by communists.
  • Defensively, Palmer warned in 1920 that a left-wing revolution aimed at government overthrow would begin on May 1, known as May Day, the International Workers' Day.
  • While both anarchists and communists were suspected, no one was indicted for the bombing.
  • Passage of these laws provoked aggressive police investigations and unwarranted arrests and deportation for those suspected of communist or left-wing leanings.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • This policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.
  • Following the 1917 communist revolution in Russia, there were calls by Western leaders to isolate the Bolshevik government, which seemed intent on promoting worldwide revolution.
  • In March 1919, French Premier Georges Clemenceau called for a cordon sanitaire, or ring of non-communist states, to isolate the Soviet Union.
  • Embassy in Moscow, why the Russians opposed the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
  • Because containment required detailed information about Communist moves, the government relied increasingly on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

• The Truman Doctrine

  • The effect was to end the communist threat, and in 1952, both Greece and Turkey joined NATO, a military alliance, to guarantee their protection.
  • The fighting resulted in the defeat of the Communist insurgents by the government forces.
  • In the second stage of the civil war in December 1944, the British helped prevent the seizure of Athens by the Greek Communist Party (KKE).
  • In the third phase (1946–49), guerrilla forces controlled by the KKE fought against the internationally recognized Greek government which was formed after 1946 elections boycotted by the KKE.
  • The Truman Doctrine became a metaphor for emergency aid to keep a nation from communist influence.

• The USSR

  • From its creation, the government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
  • On 3 April 1922, Stalin was named the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • Major figures in the Communist Party and government, and many Red Army high commanders, were killed after being convicted of treason in show trials.
  • Roosevelt chose to formally recognize Stalin's Communist government and negotiated a new trade agreement between the two nations.

• Hitler's Germany

  • The period is also known under the names the Third Reich and the National Socialist Period.
  • Members of the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition were killed, imprisoned, or exiled.
  • Hitler proclaimed that the arson marked the start of a communist uprising.
  • Violent suppression of communists by the Sturmabteilung (SA) was undertaken all over the country, and four thousand members of the Communist Party of Germany were arrested.
  • As the bill required a two-thirds majority to pass, the Nazis used the provisions of the Reichstag Fire Decree to keep several Social Democratic deputies from attending; the Communists had already been banned.