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

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

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a file was discovered in a Comintern archive in Moscow identifying Orwell and his wife as “pronounced Trotskyites.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2016

The American Ambassador's daughter here told him that you are an agent of the Comintern.

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan