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

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

The skinny rowhouses that brought together two European members of the Comintern, 12 future party bigwigs and a 27-year-old Mao have been preserved intact.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2017

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

In 1936, Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, pledging mutual assistance in defending themselves against the Comintern, the international agency created by the Soviet Union to promote worldwide Communist revolution.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

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

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan