Comintern

American

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

Or Komintern

noun

Third International.

Comintern British

/ ˈkɒmɪnˌtɜːn /

noun

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

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Comintern

The couple certainly couldn’t admit who they really were: Yakob Rudnik and Tatyana Moiseenko, undercover Soviet agents for the Communist International, or Comintern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

“He was certain that Dzerzhinsky was alive. And that Comintern was the name of a musical group.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018

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

From The Five Arrows by Allan Chase

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