List of delegates of the 1st Comintern congress
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This is a list of delegates to the first congress of the Comintern. The founding congress
that established the Communist International was held in Moscow
from 2 March 1919 to 6 March 1919.
Communist Party of Finland
Five delegates shared three votes:
Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden
One delegate held three votes:
Communist Party of Ukraine
Two delegate shared three votes:
Founding Congress of the Comintern
The Founding Congress of the Comintern was an international gathering of communist, revolutionary socialist, and syndicalist delegates held in Moscow which established the Communist International...
that established the Communist International was held in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
from 2 March 1919 to 6 March 1919.
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Six delegates shared five votes:- Vladimir LeninVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
- Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyLeon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
- Grigory ZinovievGrigory ZinovievGrigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician...
- Joseph StalinJoseph StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
- Nikolai BukharinNikolai BukharinNikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , was a Russian Marxist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. He was a member of the Politburo and Central Committee , chairman of the Communist International , and the editor in chief of Pravda , the journal Bolshevik , Izvestia , and the Great Soviet...
- Georgy ChicherinGeorgy ChicherinGeorgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to 1930.-Childhood and early career:...
Communist Party of German Austria
Two delegates shared three votes:- Karl Steinhardt
- K. Petin
Balkan Revolutionary Social Democratic Federation
One delegate held three votes:- Christian RakovskyChristian RakovskyChristian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist...
Communist Party of FinlandCommunist Party of FinlandThe Communist Party of Finland was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.SKP did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used...
Five delegates shared three votes:- Yrjö SirolaYrjö SirolaYrjö Elias Sirola was a Finnish socialist politician, teacher, and newspaper editor...
- Kullervo MannerKullervo MannerKullervo Achilles Manner was a Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Finnish parliament, serving as its Speaker in 1917. He was also chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland between 1917–1918. During the Finnish Civil War, he led the Finnish People's Delegation...
- Otto Kuusinen
- Jukka RahjaJukka RahjaJukka Rahja was a Russian-Finnish Bolshevik who was killed by the Petrograd Opposition.Jukka was the brother of Eino Rahja and Jaakko Rahja....
- Eino RahjaEino RahjaEino Abramovich Rahja was a Finnish-Russian politician who joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, becoming aligned with the party's Bolshevik faction. Rahja organized Lenin's temporary escape to Finland in the summer of 1917. During the Finnish Civil War, Rahja was one of the...
Social Democratic Left Party of SwedenLeft Party (Sweden)The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations...
One delegate held three votes:- Otto GrimlundOtto GrimlundOtto Bernhard Grimlund was a Swedish Communist politician.Originally a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party he joined the revolutionary left-wing in the party split of 1917 and represented the Swedish Social Democratic Left Party at the founding of the Communist International in Moscow in...
Swiss Social Democratic Party (Opposition)
One delegate held three votes:- Fritz PlattenFritz PlattenFritz Platten was a Swiss Communist.After the collapse of the Second International, Platten joined the Zimmerwald Movement and became a Communist....
Communist Party of UkraineCommunist Party of UkraineThe Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine, currently led by Petro Symonenko.The party fights the Ukrainian national self-determination by identifying any Ukrainian national parties as the National-Fascist ones The Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine,...
Two delegate shared three votes:- N. A. Skrypnik
- S. I. Gopner
United Group of the Eastern Peoples of Russia
Five delegates shared a single vote:- Mahomet Altimirov
- Hussein Bekentayev
- Kasim Kasimov
- Burhan Mansurov
- Gaziz Yalymov
Communist Party of the German Colonists in Russia
One delegate held a single vote:- Gustav KlingerGustav KlingerGustav Klinger was a Russian Bolshevik politician. Klinger joined the Party in 1917 in time for the revolution and was leader of the Volga German Soviet government 1918. He became business manager for the newly founded Communist International in 1919, and was elected to the Comintern Executive...
Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia
One delegate held a single vote:- Kazimir Gedris
Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples
- Mir Jafar BaghirovMir Jafar BaghirovMir Jafar Baghirov Abbas oglu was the communist leader of Azerbaijan SSR from 1932 till 1953, under the Soviet leadership of Joseph Stalin.-Early life:Born in Quba of Baku Governorate in 1896, Baghirov studied pedagogy in Petrovsk....
(Azerbaijani Section) - Tengiz Zhgenti (Georgian Section)
- Mirza Davud Bagir-Uglu Gusseinov (Persian Section)
- Gaziz Yalymov (Turkestan Section)
- Mustafa SuphiMustafa SuphiMustafa Suphi was a Turkish communist leader .- Early Years :Suphi was educated in Jerusalem, Damascus and Erzurum before attending Galatasaray High School. He studied political science in Paris, where he was also a correspondent of the Turkish newspaper Tanin...
(Turkish Section)