Second International
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The Socialist International, commonly known as the Second International, was a political international of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris in 1889. At a time of growing industrial working-
Delegates at the 1910 Copenhagen Congress
Wilhelm Liebknecht
August Bebel
Édouard Vaillant
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
Second International
…conference of 1919 were unsuccessful, as many parties refused to rejoin what they saw as a discredited body. The Second International was succeeded by the Communist International (Comintern or Third International), founded in 1919, and the Labour and Socialist International, formed in 1923 by a merger of the Berne International…
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