Comintern

or Kom·in·tern

[ kom-in-turn, kom-in-turn ]

noun

1. Third International.

Comintern

/ ˈkɒmɪnˌtɜːn /

noun

1. short for Communist International : an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics Also calledThird International

Word History and Origins

Origin of Comintern¹

< Russian Komintérn, for Kommunistícheskiĭ Internatsionál Communist International

Example Sentences

When he delivered one of his trademark careful pronunciations — “Comintern,” “Argentina” — it seemed not showy but respectful.

From New York Times

Reports on Poum members were drawn up by the International Brigades’ branch of the military intelligence service, which was led by members of the Moscow-based Communist International, Comintern.

From The Guardian

After a series of injuries while fighting on the Eastern Front, he accepted an assignment at Comintern headquarters in Moscow.

From New York Times

Zinoviev, who had been a member of the first Politburo, in 1917, and the head of the Comintern, said, “My defective Bolshevism became transformed into anti-Bolshevism, and through Trotskyism I arrived at Fascism.”

From The New Yorker

Unsurprisingly, many of the most prolific anti-communists were also committed segregationists who violently fought black-led labor and civil rights organizing in the south, accusing members of groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of being dupes for the Comintern.

From The Guardian