Comintern

American  

[kom-in-turn, kom-in-turn] / ˈkɒm ɪnˌtɜrn, ˌkɒm ɪnˈtɜrn /

Or Komintern

noun

1. Third International.

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Comintern British  

/ ˈkɒmɪnˌtɜːn /

noun

1. Also called: Third International.  short for Communist International : an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics

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Etymology

Origin of Comintern

< Russian Komintérn, for Kommunistícheskiĭ Internatsionál Communist International

Example Sentences

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Comintern

After a series of injuries while fighting on the Eastern Front, he accepted an assignment at Comintern headquarters in Moscow.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

The Comintern inaugurated a Popular Front across the West, comprised not just of working-class parties but also middle-class reformers.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2019

By the time he set off back to Russia to participate in the second congress of the Comintern, he was visibly deteriorating from scurvy and malnutrition.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2016

When the Soviets directed Comintern to appeal for volunteers around the world to fight in Spain, more than thirty thousand signed up, from more than fifty countries.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016

But selling to the New Yorker is the latest orders from the Comintern.

From Class of '29 by Lashin, Orrie