Download or read book The Communist International in Lenin's Time Series written by John Riddell and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings together documents, reports, and speeches by working-class political leaders who fought in the early decades of the twentieth century to oppose imperialist war by organizing the working class and farmers to overthrow their capitalist rulers.The series begins with debates in the working class movement over war, colonialism, and reform and revolution in the years leading up to the First World War and the Russian revolution. Later volumes take up the Russian revolution itself, the postwar revolutionary upsurge in Germany, the first two congresses of the Communist International, and the Congress of the Peoples of the East, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1920.Much of the material appears in print in English for the first time. Each volume includes photos, annotation, a glossary, a chronology, and an index.