Red Peasant International
Encyclopedia
The Red Peasant International, generally called by its Russian
abbreviation Krestintern, was an international peasants organization formed by the Communist International in October 1923. The organization was dissolved in 1939.
The communists competed with agrarian parties for the support of the peasantry in Eastern Europe
. The agrarians had organized into the International Agrarian Bureau
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Member organizations of Krestintern (incomplete list):
Vietnam
ese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh
worked on the standing committee of Krestintern in the mid-1920s.
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
abbreviation Krestintern, was an international peasants organization formed by the Communist International in October 1923. The organization was dissolved in 1939.
The communists competed with agrarian parties for the support of the peasantry in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. The agrarians had organized into the International Agrarian Bureau
International Agrarian Bureau
The International Agrarian Bureau was founded in 1921 by the Agrarian parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, and Poland growing to 17 political parties in Eastern Europe by 1928. It was sometimes referred to as the "first Green International". The Bureau was a key competitor with the Red...
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Member organizations of Krestintern (incomplete list):
- Croatian Peasants Party (affiliated 1924 - 1925)
- Irish Working Farmers' Committee
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peasants' leagues (affiliated in 1923) - Philippine Confederation of Peasants (Katipunan ng mga Anakpawis ng Pilipinas) (affiliated in 1929)
Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh
Hồ Chí Minh , born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...
worked on the standing committee of Krestintern in the mid-1920s.
Further reading
- Lowell K. Dyson, "Red Peasant International in America," Journal of American History, vol. 58 (1972), pp. 958-973.
- George D. Jackson, Jr., Comintern and Peasant in East Europe (1919-1930). New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.