MIA: History: International: Communist International: First Congress 1919
Speeches at the
First Congress of the
Communist International
March 1919
Summary of Congress
Invitation to Congress, 24 January 1919
March 2
March 4
- On Bourgeois Democracy and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Lenin)
- Resolution on Bourgeois Democracy and Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Proposal to Constitute the Third International
- The Constitution of the Communist International
- Congress Greetings to the Ukrainian Workers
- Declaration of the Participants in the Zimmerwald Conference
- Resolution on the Zimmerwald Association
March 5
- Manifesto of the Communist International (Trotsky): (An original first edition of the English translation in PDF format)
- The Attitude to the ‘Socialist’ Currents and to the Berne Conference
- On the White Terror
- The Platform of the Communist International
- Resolution of the Japanese Socialists
- Resolution on the Role of Working Women (Alexandre Kollontai)
- Memorandum to the Workers of all Countries
- The Organisation of the Communist International
- The International Situation and the Policy of the Entente
March 6
- Report on the Communist Party and the Red Army (Trotsky);
- Order of the Day No. 83 to the Red Army and Navy (Trotsky);
- Concluding Speech at the Closing Session of the Congress (Lenin)