The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international government that advocated world communism. It was controlled by the Soviet Union. The Comintern fixed idea at its Second Congress to “struggle by whatever available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and the commencement of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the supreme abolition of the state”. The Comintern was preceded by the 1916 withdrawal of the Second International.
The Comintern held seven World Congresses in Moscow along with 1919 and 1935. During that period, it moreover conducted thirteen Enlarged Plenums of its governing Executive Committee, which had much the thesame function as the somewhat larger and more grandiose Congresses. Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dissolved the Comintern in 1943 to avoid antagonizing his allies in the latter years of World War II, the United States and the United Kingdom. It was succeeded by the 1947 Cominform.
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