Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An association of Communist parties of the world, established in 1919 by Lenin and dissolved in 1943.

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  • proper noun An international association of Communist parties, established in 1919 by Lenin.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Russian komintern, abbreviation of Kommunisticheskiĭ Internatsional, Communist International.]

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From Russian Коминтерн (Komintérn), contracted abbreviation of Коммунистический интернационал (Kommunístíčeskij internacionál, "Communist International"), from коммунистический + интернационал.

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Examples

  • One organization captured by the Neo-Comintern is Freedom House.

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  • In the meantime we were trying hard to get past the facade of bureaucrats, jacks in office, and time servers, which seemed to constitute the "Comintern," as We found it, to those real Bolsheviks whom we believed were somewhere in Moscow-real Leninists who would listen and understand and appreciate, who would not be out to attack us but to give us their comradely advice.

    Sidney Percival Bunting Roux, Edward 1943

  • (The word "Comintern" doesn't occur in Dickstein's index.)

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  • We have already forged a new transnational nation, a kind of Comintern, that acts as a mobile pressure group with shared goals and ideologies sans frontieres most notably in the West - the immigrant lobby.

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  • His boss, Münzenburg, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Comintern, as Scammell concedes.

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  • I did not say that Koestler was a senior agent of the Comintern.

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  • I did not say that Koestler was a senior agent of the Comintern.

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  • He was a comparatively junior member of the German Communist Party in Exile, a reporter for the News Chronicle, and a secret propagandist for Willi Münzenberg (who was an agent of the Comintern).

    Letters to the Editor 2010

  • His boss, Münzenburg, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Comintern, as Scammell concedes.

    Letters to the Editor 2010

  • He was a comparatively junior member of the German Communist Party in Exile, a reporter for the News Chronicle, and a secret propagandist for Willi Münzenberg (who was an agent of the Comintern).

    Letters to the Editor 2010

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