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The transnational world of the Cominternians

Studer, Brigitte

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\"The 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world. Full of sympathy, eager to learn, hopeful of emulating Bolshevik success 'at home', they were first-hand witnesses to the difficulties of the young Russian Revolution, before seeing it descend into the terror to which many of them fell victim. This book tells of their experience through these decades, of the encounter between utopian imagination and the real, and how the Party as institution sought to bend subjectivity to its needs, even as they became ever more questionable. Opened some 25 years ago, the Comintern archives provide a surprising wealth of autobiographical materials generated by these militants, and it is on these that this account of political commitment and its vicissitudes is based\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Communist International Officials and employees History 20th century. / Vsesoëiىuznaëiىa kommunisticheskaëiىa partiëiىa (bol§shevikov) History. / Kommunisticheskaëiىa partiëiىa Sovetskogo Soëiىuza History. / Communists Russia (Federation) Moscow History 20th century. / Transnationalism Political aspects Russia (Federation) Moscow History 20th century. / Cosmopolitanism Russia (Federation) Moscow History 20th century. / Political culture Russia (Federation) Moscow History 20th century. / Social change Russia (Federation) Moscow History 20th century. / HISTORY / Revolutionary. / HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. / Moscow (Russia) Politics and government 20th century. / Moscow (Russia) Social conditions 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781137510280, 1137510285

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