Comintern

Or Kom·in·tern

[kom-in-turn, kom-in-turn]

noun

1. Third International.

Comintern

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Comintern¹

< Russian Komintérn, for Kommunistícheskiĭ Internatsionál Communist International

Example Sentences

In his novel “1984,” political contractions such as Ingsoc, Minitrue and Miniplenty echo the clipped speech of Nazi and Soviet regimes, like “Gestapo” and “Comintern.”

Read more on Salon

When he delivered one of his trademark careful pronunciations — “Comintern,” “Argentina” — it seemed not showy but respectful.

Read more on New York Times

Reports on Poum members were drawn up by the International Brigades’ branch of the military intelligence service, which was led by members of the Moscow-based Communist International, Comintern.

Read more on The Guardian

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

Read more on New York Times

Zinoviev, who had been a member of the first Politburo, in 1917, and the head of the Comintern, said, “My defective Bolshevism became transformed into anti-Bolshevism, and through Trotskyism I arrived at Fascism.”

Read more on The New Yorker