This is a list of delegates of the 1st World Congress of the Communist International. The
founding congress that established the
Communist International
The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by ...
was held in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
from 2 March 1919 to 6 March 1919.
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Full delegates
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
, founded =
, banned =
, founder = Vladimir Lenin
, newspaper ...
Six delegates shared five votes:
*Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
*Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...
* Grigory Zinoviev
*Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
* Nikolai Bukharin
*Georgy Chicherin
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (24 November 1872 – 7 July 1936), also spelled Tchitcherin, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from ...
Communist Party of Germany
One delegate held five votes:
*Hugo Eberlein
Max Albert Hugo Eberlein (4 May 1887 – 16 October 1941) was a German Communist politician. He took part of the founding congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Dec–Jan 1919), and then in the First Congress of the Comintern (2–6 March 19 ...
Socialist Labor Party of America
One delegate held five votes:
* Boris Reinstein
Communist Party of German Austria
Two delegates shared three votes:
*Karl Steinhardt
Karl Steinhardt (1 August 1875, Gyöngyös — 21 January 1963, Vienna) was an Austrian politician and activist who was one of the founders and leaders of the Communist Party of Austria.
Biography
Born in Gyöngyös in the Austro-Hungaria ...
*K. Petin
Balkan Revolutionary Social Democratic Federation
One delegate held three votes:
* Christian Rakovsky
Communist Party of Finland
The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.
The SKP was banned ...
Five delegates shared three votes:
* Yrjö Sirola
*Kullervo Manner
Kullervo Achilles Manner (, Russian Куллерво Густавович Маннер, ''Kullervo Gustavovich Manner''; 12 October 1880 – 15 January 1939) was a Finnish politician and journalist, and later a Soviet politician. He was a memb ...
*Otto Kuusinen
Otto Wilhelm "Wille" Kuusinen (; russian: О́тто Вильге́льмович Ку́усинен, Otto Vilgelmovich Kuusinen; 4 October 1881 – 17 May 1964) was a Finnish-born Soviet communist and, later, Soviet politician, literary hi ...
*Jukka Rahja Jukka Rahja (1887, Kronstadt – 31 August 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian-Finnish Bolshevik who was killed by the Petrograd Opposition.
Jukka was the brother of Eino Rahja and Jaakko Rahja.
He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ...
*Eino Rahja
Eino Abramovich Rahja (20 June 1885 – 26 April 1936) was a Finnish-Russian revolutionary who joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, becoming aligned with the party's Bolshevik faction. Rahja organized Lenin's temporary esca ...
Communist Party of Hungary
The Hungarian Communist Party ( hu, Magyar Kommunista Párt, abbr. MKP), known earlier as the Party of Communists in Hungary ( hu, Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja, abbr. KMP), was a communist party in Hungary that existed during the interwar ...
One delegate held three votes:
* Endre Rudnyánszky
Norwegian Labour Party
One delegate held three votes:
*Emil Stang
Emil Stang (14 June 1834 – 4 July 1912) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He served as the 5th prime minister of Norway from 1889–1891 and again from 1893–1895. He also served as the first leader of the Conservative Party from 1884–18 ...
Communist Party of Poland
The interwar Communist Party of Poland ( pl, Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a December 1918 merger of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland a ...
One delegate held three votes:
*Józef Unszlicht
Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht (russian: Ио́сиф Станисла́вович У́ншлихт; nicknames "Jurowski", "Leon") (31 December 1879 – 29 July 1938) was a Polish and Russian revolutionary activist, a Soviet go ...
Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden
One delegate held three votes:
* Otto Grimlund
Swiss Social Democratic Party (Opposition)
One delegate held three votes:
*Fritz Platten
Fritz Platten (8 July 1883 – 22 April 1942) was a Swiss communist politician and one of the founders of the Communist International.
Early life
Platten was born in the village of Tablat, now part of St. Gallen, on 8 July 1883, to and Old Cathol ...
Communist Party of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
Two delegate shared three votes:
* N. A. Skrypnik
* S. I. Gopner
Communist Party of Armenia
One delegate held a single vote:
* Gurgen Haikun
United Group of the Eastern Peoples of Russia
Five delegates shared a single vote:
* Mahomet Altimirov
* Hussein Bekentayev
* Kasim Kasimov
* Burhan Mansurov
* Gaziz Yalymov
Communist Party of Estonia
The Communist Party of Estonia ( et, Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, abbreviated EKP) was a subdivision of the Soviet communist party which in 1920-1940 operated illegally in Estonia and, after the 1940 occupation and annexation of Estonia by the ...
One delegate held a single vote:
* Hans Pöögelmann
Zimmerwald Left of France
One delegate held a single vote:
*Henri Guilbeaux
Henri Guilbeaux (1885–1938) was a French socialist politician and poet. He was active in the Zimmerwald Conference, Zimmerwald Anti-War Movement during World War I.
Guilbeaux was a prominent figure in a group of intellectuals in Geneva who op ...
Communist Party of the German Colonists in Russia
One delegate held a single vote:
*Gustav Klinger
Gustav Klinger (1876 – 1937? or 1943) was a Russian Bolshevik politician. Klinger joined the Party in 1917 in time for the revolution and was leader of the Volga German Soviet government 1918. He became business manager for the newly founded C ...
Communist Party of Latvia
The Communist Party of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Komunistiskā partija, LKP) was a political party in Latvia.
History Latvian Social-Democracy prior to 1919
The party was founded at a congress in June 1904. Initially the party was known as the Latvia ...
One delegate held a single vote:
* Kārlis Gailis
Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia
The Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia, abbreviated КП ЛіБ, lt, Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos Komunistų partiją, abbreviated LBKP, russian: Коммунистическая партия Литвы и Белоруссии, abbreviated К ...
One delegate held a single vote:
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Consultative delegates
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
, founded =
, banned =
, founder = Vladimir Lenin
, newspaper ...
* V. V. Obolensky
* V. V. Vorovsky
Bulgarian Communist Group
* Stojan Dyorov
Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples
*Mir Jafar Baghirov
Mir Jafar Abbas oghlu Baghirov ( az, Мирҹәфәр Аббас оғлу Бағыров, italic=no, Mircəfər Abbas oğlu Bağırov, russian: Мир Джафар Аббасович Багиров; 17 September 1896 – 7 May 1956) was the comm ...
(Azerbaijani Section)
* Tengiz Zhgenti (Georgian Section)
* Mirza Davud Bagir-Uglu Gusseinov (Persian Section)
* Gaziz Yalymov (Turkestan Section)
*Mustafa Suphi
Mustafa Suphi or Mustafa Subhi (1883 – 28 January 1921) was a Turkish revolutionary and communist during the period of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Early life
Suphi was born in 1883 in Giresun Province, in the Ottoman Empire, now loc ...
(Turkish Section)
Chinese Socialist Workers Party
* Liu Shao-zhou
* Zhang Yong-kui
Czech Communist Group
* Jaroslav Handlíř
French Communist Group
*Jacques Sadoul
Jacques Sadoul (1934 – 18 January 2013) was a French novelist, book editor and non-fiction author.
Work on science fiction
His ''Histoire de la science fiction moderne'' (1973) was a major encouragement for the serious, academic study of ...
British Communist Group
* Joseph Fineberg
Korean Workers League in Moscow
*Kang Sang-ju
Dutch Social Democratic Group
* Sebald Rutgers
Swiss Communist Group
* Leonie Kascher
Socialist Propaganda League of America
The Socialist Propaganda League of America (SPLA) was established in 1915, apparently by C. W. Fitzgerald of Beverly, Massachusetts. The group was a membership organization established within the ranks of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and ...
* Sebald Rutgers
Yugoslav Communist Group
* Ilija Milkić
Zimmerwald Committee
* Angelica Balabanova
References
See also
* List of delegates of the 2nd Comintern congress
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