Second Congress of the Communist International

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The Second Congress of the Communist International was a 1920 gathering of communist parties from around the world that decisively shaped the early structure, strategy, and membership criteria of the international communist movement.

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instanceOf congress of the Communist International
international political conference
adoptedDocument 21 Conditions of Admission to the Communist International
Statutes of the Communist International
Theses on the Agrarian Question
Theses on the National and Colonial Question
Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution
Theses on the Trade Union Movement
aim coordination of international communist parties
promotion of world proletarian revolution
alsoKnownAs 2nd World Congress of the Communist International
Second Congress of the Comintern
chairperson Grigory Zinoviev
country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
endDate 1920-08-07
followedBy Third Congress of the Communist International
follows First Congress of the Communist International
historicalPeriod post–World War I revolutionary wave
keyFigure Béla Kun
Clara Zetkin
John Reed
Karl Radek
Leon Trotsky
M.N. Roy
Nikolai Bukharin
Vladimir Lenin
languageOfProceedings English
French
German
Russian
location Moscow
Petrograd
linked to: Leningrad
numberOfCountriesRepresented 37
numberOfDelegates 218
numberOfNonVotingDelegates 49
numberOfVotingDelegates 169
organizedBy Executive Committee of the Communist International
linked to: Comintern
partOf Communist International
linked to: Comintern
politicalOrientation Marxist-Leninist
significance decisively shaped the early structure of the Communist International
defined strict membership criteria for communist parties
established a centralized and disciplined model of communist parties
startDate 1920-07-19
topic conditions for membership in the Communist International
national and colonial liberation movements
parliamentary tactics
relationship to reformist and centrist socialist parties
strategy of the world communist movement
trade union tactics
year 1920

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Twenty-one Conditions for admission adoptedBy Second Congress of the Communist International
Twenty-one Conditions for admission adoptedAt Second Congress of the Communist International
Second Congress of the Communist International alsoKnownAs 2nd World Congress of the Communist International
linked to: Second Congress of the Communist International
Second Congress of the Communist International alsoKnownAs Second Congress of the Comintern
linked to: Second Congress of the Communist International
21 Conditions for admission to the Communist International adoptedAt 2nd World Congress of the Communist International
linked to: Second Congress of the Communist International