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Article: The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- March 22, 1999
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The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. By Kevin McDermott and Jeremy Agnew. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 304. $49.95.)
The Comintern (1919-1943) was an unprecedented phenomenon in modern history. At what earlier time had one sovereign state gained mastery over a worldwide organization of national political parties bent on revolutionary upheavals in all other sovereign states? No matter that the Comintern failed to carry out a single successful revolution; it still constituted an influential force in both national and international arenas for almost a quarter century.
Now at long last there is a ...