The origins of the Transitional Programme in Trotsky’s writings have been traced in the secondary literature. Much less attention has been paid to the earlier origins of the Transitional Programme in the debates of the ...

The present work aims to make a study about the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) in the context of the Second Republic, more precisely, from 1945 (when the Party had a brief period on legality) to 1958 (when the Party was ...

This article studies the relationships established between the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) and South-American and Asian anti-Communist organizations and military dictatorships in the 1970s. The proposed hypothesis ...

This article analyzes the ways in which the Communist Party of Chile commemorated November 7 between the years 1935-1970, under the understanding that the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution became one of the central ...

During its first four congresses, held annually under Lenin (1919-22), the Communist International went through two distinct phases: while the first two congresses focused on programmatic and organisational aspects of the ...

This paper joins the most recent debates on the historiography of communism, trying to nuance prevailing views on the character and makeup of communist membership. It analyzes the internal crisis undergone by Chile's ...