The Comintern summons world revolution
1919 · Event
In a freezing Kremlin hall, delegates of nineteen mostly tiny parties found the Communist International, pledged to armed revolution in every country on earth. For a generation, every communist party in the world answers — in doctrine and often in funds — to Moscow.
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Around 1919
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- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
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- Great Depression (1929)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
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