Toward the united front : proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922

The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated, now at last available in English, reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and colonial people in struggle with that of pressing forward to socialist revolution. The principle of national parties'autonomy strains against calls for more stringent centralisation. Debates range over the birth of Fascism, decay of the Versailles Treaty system, the rise of colonial revolution, and women's emancipation. Newly translated and richly annotated, the stenographic transcript of the month-long congress discloses a rich spectrum of viewpoints among delegates. Indispensable source material on early Communism is supplemented by an analytic introduction, detailed footnotes, more than 500 short biographies, glossary, chronology, and index. Content: Editorial Introduction About This Edition Acknowledgements Proceedings Session 1. Opening Session (5 November) Session 2. Report of the Executive Committee (9 November) Session 3. Report of the Executive Committee (Concluded), Discussion (10 November) Session 4. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (11 November) Session 5. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (11 November) Session 6. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (12 November) Session 7. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Conclusion) (12 November) Session 8. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives for the World-Revolution (13 November) Session 9. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives for the World-Revolution (Continued) (14 November) Session 10. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives for the World-Revolution (Concluded) (14 November) Session 11. The Capitalist Offensive (15 November) Session 12. Fascism the Capitalist Offensive - Continued (16 November) Session 13. Credentials Report the Capitalist Offensive - Concluded (17 November) Session 14. Programme (18 November) Session 15. Programme - Continued (18 November) Session 16. Trade Unions (20 November) Session 17. Trade Unions - Continued (20 November) Session 18. Trade Unions (Summary) Programme Workers' Aid (21 November) Session 19. The Eastern Question (22 November) Session 20. The Eastern Question (Concluded) (23 November) Session 21. The Agrarian Question (24 November) Session 22. The Agrarian Question Youth Blacks (25 November) Session 23. The Cooperative Movement (25 November) Session 24. Communist Work among Women (27 November) Session 25. Educational Work Versailles Treaty (28 November) Session 26. Versailles Treaty Austria Executive Reorganisation (29 November) Session 27. Executive Reorganisation Yugoslavia Egypt Black and Agrarian Questions (30 November) Session 28. France (1 December) Session 29. France, Spain, Denmark, Executive, Youth (2 December) Session 30. Italy Czechoslovakia (4 December) Session 31. Workers' Aid Yugoslavia Norway (5 December) 0000 Session 32. Various Resolutions Election of ECCI Close of Congress (5 December) Appendixes: Congress Resolutions and Appeals The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated, now at last available in English, reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and colonial people in struggle with that of pressing forward to socialist revolution. The principle of national parties' autonomy strains against calls for more stringent centralisation. Debates range over the birth of Fascism, decay of the Versailles Treaty system, the rise of colonial revolution, and women's emancipation. Newly translated and richly annotated, the stenographic transcript of the month-long congress discloses a rich spectrum of viewpoints among delegates. Indispensable source material on early Communism is supplemented by an analytic introduction, detailed footnotes, more than 500 short biographies, glossary, chronology, and index This book offers, for the first time in English, the proceedings and decisions of the last congress of the Communist International held in Lenin's lifetime. With an analytic introduction, detailed footnotes, 500 biographic notes, glossary, chronology, and index.-- Provided by Publisher Edited And Translated By John Riddell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.