Comintern
Also called: Third International · Topic: Paths to Modernisation: Japan, China, Korea · NCERT: Class 11, Ch 7 "Paths to Modernisation"
Meaning
The Comintern (Communist International, also called the Third International) was a world body of communist parties. Lenin and the Bolsheviks set it up in Moscow in March 1919; the NCERT chapter gives the date as March 1918. Its aim was to help communist revolutions around the world. It taught that revolution would be made by industrial workers in the cities. Over time it served the interests of the Soviet Union, and it was closed in 1943.
Example
The Comintern told the Communist Party of China, founded in 1921, to lead a revolution based on city workers. Mao Zedong broke with this approach. He built the revolution on the peasants, for example in the Jiangxi soviet (1928–34).
Don't confuse with
- Communist Party of China: a Chinese party. The Comintern was an international body run from Moscow that gave advice and orders to such parties.
Related concepts
- Communist Party of China
- Mao Zedong
- Long March
- People's Republic of China
- Great Leap Forward
- People's communes
- Cultural Revolution
- Deng Xiaoping
- Four Modernisations
- Socialist market economy