The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin

Incorporates material from the newly opened Soviet Communist Party Archive in Moscow to explain why the Comintern failed, and to provide an interpretative account of the complete span of the Comintern's existence (1919-43). The authors attribute the Comintern's degeneration from a revolutionary internationalist organization into an obedient instrument of the Soviet state to its imposition of strategies more in tune with Soviet state requirements than with the needs of foreign communists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.