Comintern : Electronic Archives of the Communist International (Access from European Reading Room Only)
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Description: The Comintern Archive contains original documents from over 35 communist and left-socialist parties, together with other international organizations from 21 different countries. The Archives highlight political developments in the Soviet Union and the emerging Cold War, as well as profiles of communist movement leaders and the evolution of communism over time. The database can be searched for keywords, descriptors, organizational and personal names and titles either in Cyrillic alphabet Russian or transliterated Latin alphabet using the "GOST" transliteration system.
The material is organized in eleven groups:
- Congresses and Plenums of Executive Committee of the Communist International
- Executive Committee of the Communist International and its Organizational Offices
- Communist Parties as Comintern Sections
- Educational Institutions of the Communist International
- International Revolutionary Organizations
- Personal Fonds and Collections of the Documents
- Personal Files by Countries
- International Socialist Movement
- International Brigades of Spain
- International Trotskysts' Organizations
- Other Comintern Documents
Language: English, Russian (Alphabet: Latin, Cyrillic). The majority of the documents date from 1919 to 1943; however both earlier and later materials can be found.
List of LC holdings for the subject Communist International.
Coverage: 1919-1956
Subject(s)
European Studies
Government Documents
History, Genealogy & Archives
Politics & Government
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