Duncan Hallas, The Comintern, Bookmarks, London 1985.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Introduction
1. The Beginnings
Social Democracy in 1914
The Rising Tide
Democracy and Dictatorship
2. The Mass Parties
The 21 Conditions
The Role of the Party
‘No compromises, no manoeuvres’
The British Communist Party and the British Labour Party
The Peasants and the Colonial World
Women and Revolution
3. The Ebb
The Italian Debacle
Germany: The March Action
Towards the United Front
The Fourth World Congress
International Manoeuvres
4. 1923: The Crucial Year
Defeat in Bulgaria
The German October
The Reaction in Russia
5. Left Oscillation – Right Turn
Petty-bourgeois ‘allies’
The British General Strike
The Chinese Revolution
6. The Third Period
The New Line
‘After Hitler, our turn’
7. The Terror and the People’s Front
The People’s Front in France
The Spanish Revolution
The Last Spasm 1939–43
8. The Legacy Of The Comintern
Chronology
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