Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book

This accessible text provides a comprehensive narrative and interpretative account of the entire history of the Communist International, 1919-1943. By incorpora

The Comintern, from its years as a school of strategy and tactics, to its Stalinist demise.

In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the