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Article: The Secret World of American Communism.
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- The Nation
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- June 12, 1995
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By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. Yale. 348 pp. $25.
The Communist International (also known as the Third International, or the Comintern) was founded in Moscow in 1919, a year of revolutionary fervor and illusion. The Bolshevik Revolution was a year and half old; a spirit of working-class unrest was abroad from Seattle to Budapest; revolutionary socialists, syndicalists and anarchists around the world looked hopefully to Moscow for guidance in what appeared to be the imminent final conflict with capitalism. But within a year it became apparent that the prospects for revolution were either fast receding or vastly exaggerated in the ...