International Radical Networks: The Case of the Comintern (Research Brief)

The project investigates files from the Comintern Archive and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art to chart the lives of international students at the Comintern’s Schools and international communists who had connections to both Moscow and Spain. Examining transnational interactions from the perspective of the people who together constituted the Comintern, the project offers a new social and cultural approach to the history of international communism. The overarching question addressed by this project remains a concern of US foreign policy: How do radical, transnational organizations recruit and retain adherents?

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Lisa Kirschenbaum, of West Chester University, was a 2010-11 Short-Term Travel Grants (STG) fellow.