Arthur Ransome
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Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author, intelligence agent, and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-hol
Cover of Ransome's autobiography
Communist International
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The Communist International, also known as the Third International, was a Marxist political international that advocated world communism and existed from 1919 to 1943. Emerging from the collapse of th
Arthur Ransome
…following the end of the Soviet Union suggest that Evgenia Ransome, at least, was involved in smuggling diamonds from the USSR to Paris to help fund the Comintern. This is examined in the 2009 book The Last Englishman: the Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers. Ransome and his second wife are buried…
Delegates at the First (Founding) Congress, 1919
Delegates at the Second World Congress, 1920
Vladimir Lenin addressing the Third World Congress, 1921
Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin, and Grigory Zinoviev at the Second World Congress