Founding the Communist International, Proceedings and Documents of the First Congress, March 1919

Delegates from 20 countries discuss the revolutionary upsurge that swept Central Europe and Asia following World War I. Includes manifesto announcing founding of new revolutionary International.

This book is part of a series, The Communist International in Lenin’s Time.

V.I. Lenin (1870–1924) was the central leader of the Bolshevik Party, which led workers and peasants to power in the world’s first socialist revolution in October 1917. He was chairman of the revolutionary workers and peasants government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Lenin was the founding leader of the Communist International, which worked to advance the building of proletarian parties worldwide able to emulate what toilers in Russia had accomplished by conquering state power. In the final year of his active political life, Lenin led the fight within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union against the course of the growing petty bourgeois and newly emerging bourgeois layers in the Soviet Union that Joseph Stalin came to represent.

Lenin’s writings include:
Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922–23 (2010)
Founding the Communist International: Proceedings and Documents of the First Congress, March 1919 (1987)
Lenin’s Struggle for a Revolutionary International: Documents, 1907–1916 (1986)
Pathfinder has also published Three Study Guides on Lenin’s Writings (2017).