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A Contribution to the Identification of the Pseudonyms Used in the Minutes and Reports of the Communist International*

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The historian who studies the history of the Comintern has to rely mainly on printed sources. For this purpose the published minutes and reports of the seven Congresses of the Comintern (1919–35) and the thirteen plenary sessions of its Executive Committee (1922–33) are of particular interest.

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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1978

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3 M. N. Roy from India, who lived in Mexico in the years 1917–19, had founded the CP of Mexico in 1919 at the direction of Borodin (Michail Grusenberg), who acted as Comintern emissary in Mexico at the time.

4 Stojan Minev, alias Lorenzo Vanini, alias Lebedev, alias Stepanov, alias Carlo Magno, alias George Chavaroche, alias Moreno, alias Iren, was born in Bulgaria in 1891. Until the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943 he was active in its organs. In the years 1931–33 and 1937–39 he was a Comintern emissary in Spain. During World War II he worked as ECCI representative in Latin America. He did not return home after the war. In the years 1945–58 he was at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and after 1958 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CP of the Soviet Union. He died in Moscow in May 1959.

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7 Protokoll Fünfter Kongress der Kommunistischen Internationale (Hamburg, n.d.)Google Scholar; Fifth Congress of the Communist International. Abridged Report of Meetings held at Moscow June 17th to July 8th, 1924 (London, n.d.).Google Scholar In the English version the pseudonym Brown is used for James Larkin (Ireland) and the pseudonym Schulze for Wilhelm Schumacher (Germany). The pseudonym Braun is used for Ernst Thälmann (Germany).

8 In the Russian version Gordon is given instead of Ordon. Pjatyj Vsemirnyj Kongress Kommunističeskogo Intemacionala, 17 ijunja – 8 ijulja 1924 g., Stenografičeskij otčet (Moscow, Leningrad, 1925), I, pp. 764–66; II, pp. 241–42.Google Scholar

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10 “Der Siebente Weltkongress der Kommunistischen Internationale”, in: Rundschau über Politik, Wirtschaft und Arbeiterbewegung (Basel), Vol. 4 (1935), Nos 34–45, 47, 49–50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 65–66, 72, 74.Google Scholar

11 Borkanjuk, Olexa, who acted at the Congress under the pseudonym Syrový, is mistakenly called Široký in the source, No 54, p. 2265.Google Scholar The person in question is not Viliam Široký, who attended the same Congress under his own name, see ibid., No 72, p. 2794.

12 Die Taktik der Kommunistischen Internationale gegen die Offensive des Kapitals. Bericht über die Konferenz der Erweiterten Exekutive der Kommunistischen Internationale, Moskau, vom 24. Februar bis 4. März 1922 (Hamburg, 1922).Google Scholar

13 Bericht über die Tätigkeit des Präsidiums und der Exekutive der Kommunistischen Internationale für die Zeit vom 6. März bis 11. Juni 1922 (Hamburg, 1922).Google Scholar

14 Protokoll der Konferenz der Erweiterten Exekutive der Kommunistischen Internationale, Moskau, 12.–23. Juni 1923 (Hamburg, 1923).Google Scholar

15 Protokoll Fünfter Kongress, op. cit., II, pp. 1028–44.

16 Protokoll der Erweiterten Exekutive der Kommunistischen Internationale, Moskau, 21. März – 6. April 1925 (Hamburg, 1925)Google Scholar; Exécutif élargi de l'Internationale Communiste. Compte rendu analytique de la session du 21 mars au 6 avril 1925 (Paris, 1925).Google Scholar In the French version the pseudonym Misković is used for Miljuković (Yugoslavia) and the pseudonym Morelli for Mauro Scoccimarro (Italy).

17 Protokoll Erweiterte Exekutive der Kommunistischen Internationale, Moskau, 17. Febr. bis 15. März 1926 (Hamburg, Berlin, 1926).Google Scholar

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21 Protokoll 10. Plenum des Exekutivkomitees der Kommunistischen Internationale, Moskau, 3. Juli 1929 bis 19. Juli 1929 (Hamburg, Berlin, 1929).Google Scholar

22 XI Plenum IKKI, Stenografičeskij otčet (Moscow, 19311932).Google Scholar

23 XII Plenum IKKI, Stenografičeskij otčet (Moscow, 1933).Google Scholar

24 In his article “35 lat w USA”, in: Z Pola Walki, II (1959), No 4, p. 142.Google Scholar Boleslaw Gebert states that at the 12th ECCI plenum Robert Minor acted under the pseudonym Randolph. From the minutes of the sixteenth congress of the CPSU it is clear, however, that Randolph was the pseudonym of Weinstone, William W.. Šestnadcatyj s”ezd VKP(b), Stenografičeskij otčet (Moscow, 1931), p. 777.Google Scholar

25 XIII Plenum IKKI, Stenografičeskij otčet (Moscow, 1934).Google Scholar