Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Third International," 1919, from contraction of Communist International.
Usage examples of "comintern".
In order to win over the genuine revolutionary membership, and to separate them from their opportunist leaders, the Comintern formulated 18 conditions for affiliation to the new International.
In October at its Halle Congress the USPD, after a four-hour appeal by the president of the Comintern, Zinoviev, voted to accept the 21 conditions and affiliate to the Communist International.
The German Communist Party was now a truly mass party, which under the guidance of the Comintern, began to make preparations for the socialist revolution in Germany.
KPD, the Comintern had despatched the Hungarian Communist leader Bela Kun to Berlin, after the crushing in blood of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
This tendency was fed by Zinoviev, the head of the Comintern, Bukharin and Radek, who poured scorn on the defensive struggles of the SPD organisations.
KPD, egged on by the Comintern representatives, looked increasingly for a showdown with German capitalism.
As the immediate struggle for power had been temporarily postponed, the tactics of the Comintern had to be concentrated on the united front policy: fighting in day to day struggles on wages, conditions etc.
In March 1924, at the Fifth Congress of the Comintern, the leaders of the KPD were blamed for the defeat in order to deflect criticism from the role of the Comintern leaders.
It concerned secondary issues -- namely, the struggle for power between the Comintern and the Spanish left-wing parties, and the efforts of the Russian Government to prevent revolution in Spain.
I begin my letter just after the dissolution of the Comintern, and before the full effects of this have become clear.
Russian Foreign Office, it is hard to see that the disappearance of the Comintern makes any difference.
All in all, I should expect the dissolution of the Comintern to produce appreciable results, but not immediately.
When one thinks of the history of the past twenty years it is hard not to feel that the Comintern has been one of the worst enemies the working class has had.
Was a delegate to First Congress of Third International, and played a leading role in the Comintern as a supporter of Brandler.
After the October debacle, Brandler was removed from the KPD leadership by the Comintern and the party was now led by the ultra-lefts, Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow.