The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin

by Kevin McDermott

This is the first single-volume history of the Communist International in the English language to incorporate material from the newly opened Soviet Communist Party Archive in Moscow. Kevin McDermott and Jeremy Agnew provide a comprehensive narrative and interpretative account of the complete span of the Comintern's existence (1919-43). Drawing on the most up-to-date work of both western and Russian experts and on original research, the authors explain the Comintern's degeneration from a revolutionary internationalist organisation into an obedient instrument of the Soviet state.
This accessible, lucid text, supported by a selection of key documents, will be invaluable to students and researchers of Soviet history and twentieth-century history and politics.

Genres: History, Politics, Russia

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[Nathan Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Protestations to the contrary, this doesn't step very far at all outside orthodox anti-Communist theses. Nonetheless, I guess 'it could have been worse' is becoming enough for me in this day and age, somehow. Moderately useful.