Communist International (magazine)

Issued irregularly, monthly, or semi-monthly depending upon the language and year, the magazine is regarded as a vital primary source for the study of the international Communist movement.

[5] The Communist International was hampered by the Allied blockade of Soviet Russia during its formative years, a situation which both restricted the receipt of timely news of the world revolutionary movement and which greatly constrained distribution of the printed publication.

[5] Owing to these circumstances, it was not effective as a transmission mechanism of timely news and information, a function fulfilled with greater success through the use of carefully focused radio-telegrams by the Comintern.

[7] Beginning in January 1934 parallel English-language editions of The Communist International were produced in London and New York City, initially with identical covers and pagination,[7] but eventually with slightly different form and content.

[8] The American version of the publication continued to be produced in New York through 1943, at which time the Comintern was abruptly dissolved as a wartime gesture by Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union towards his western allies in World War II and along with it the magazine by the same name.

Cover of the 9th Russian issue of Kommunisticheskii internatsional, the Russian-language edition of The Communist International (1920).
Comintern President Grigory Zinoviev was editor-in-chief of The Communist International at the time of its launch, as well as a leading contributor of content to the publication.