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Brigitte Studer. Travellers of the World Revolution. A Global History of the Communist International. Verso, London and New York 2023. xiv, 476 pp. Ill. £30.00.

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Brigitte Studer. Travellers of the World Revolution. A Global History of the Communist International. Verso, London and New York 2023. xiv, 476 pp. Ill. £30.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2024

John McIlroy*
Affiliation:
Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex University, London, England

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

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References

1 I have capitalized Communist and Communism when referring to Communist parties or their members. Using lower case communist to my mind covers dissident communist, anarchists, Trotskyists, etc.

2 McDermott, Kevin and Agnew, Jeremy, The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin (Basingstoke, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Broué, Pierre, L’ Histoire de L’ Internationale Communiste, 1919–1943 (Paris, 1997)Google Scholar. And more recently, Wolikow, Serge, L’ Internationale communiste. Le Komintern ou le rêve déchu du parti mondial de la revolution (Paris, 2010)Google Scholar.

3 For example, Narinsky, Mikhail and Rojahn, Jürgen (eds), Centre and Periphery: The History of the Comintern in the Light of New Documents (Amsterdam, 1996)Google Scholar; Rees, Tim and Thorpe, Andrew (eds), International Communism and the Communist International, 1919–1943 (Manchester, 1998)Google Scholar; Klehr, Harvey, Haynes, John Earl, and Firsov, Fridrikh Igorevich, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven, CT, 1995)Google Scholar; Thorpe, Andrew, The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920–1943 (Manchester, 2000)Google Scholar.

4 Studer, Brigitte, The Transnational World of the Cominternians (Basingstoke, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar provides an introduction to some of the themes and literature.