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Article: "Unswerving loyalty": Moscow and the Communist Party of Australia, 1920-40.
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- May 1, 2008
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THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL (Comintern) was intended by its founders to be the world party of socialist revolution. It was formed in 1919 and dissolved by Stalin in 1943. Its sections, the communist parties of many countries around the world, were authorised as "communist" by the Comintern, and in return for this recognition (the authority it bestowed upon them, and the subsidies from Moscow it usually entailed) they proclaimed their support for, and attempted to implement, the various decisions made by the Comintern's congresses and Executive Committee.
The Comintern was both keenly aware of its "world-historical" role, and bureaucratic in its structure and ...