Did the Bolsheviks need a world revolution?
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2022-4-39-50
Abstract
Aim. To consider the question of the priority of the implementation of the task of carrying out the world revolution by the leaders of the RCP(b) with the help of the Communist International in the first years of its activity.
Methodology. The paper analyzes modern literature, a number of documents of the RGASPI to identify the features of the activities of the Comintern at the moments of the emergence of revolutionary situations in the Eurasian region in 1919–1923.
Results. It is concluded that, at least, no less important task of creating the Comintern than organizing the world revolution was to ensure the internal and external security of Soviet Russia.
Research implications. The article summarizes new material on the topic under study, related to the positions of historians who evaluate the Comintern not just as an organization created to carry out the world revolution.
About the Author
I. A. Suzdaltsev
GBOU School № 1381
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ilya A. Suzdaltsev – Cand. Sci. (History), teacher of history
ul. Cominterna 52, Moscow 129346
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