Comintern Archive (Third Communist International), 1917-1940
Filmed at the former central Communist Party archive in Moscow (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialnoi i politicheskoi istorii -- RGASPI), this collection consists of records of the Communist International. Series I contains records of congresses, Series II of plenums. Both series include materials of the preparatory and working commissions, stenographic reports of meetings, draft presentations and reports, and data on delegates. Many of the draft documents include marginal comments by major Soviet leaders, including I. V. Stalin.
Comintern Archive: resources
Comintern archive: inventory to the collection
CD-ROM containing an inventory (finding aid) of the entire collection, identifying location of materials from each congress and plenum by microfiche card number. Also includes an introduction to the collection and a searchable index of persons and topics.
Series 1: Comintern archive -- Congresses, 1919-1935
Contains records of the 1st-7th congresses of Comintern held in Moscow 1919-1935.
7475 microfiches
The indexes to the congresses are found on the following fiches:
Fiche 1 : 1st congress--1919
Fiche 30 : 2nd congress--1920
Fiche 240-242 : 3rd congress--1921
Fiche 860-862 : 4th congress--1921-1922
Fiche 1793-1795 : 5th congress--1923-1924
Fiche 2406-2410 : 6th congress--1927-1929
Fiche 4718-4722 : 7th congress--1934-1935
Series 2: Comintern archive -- Plenums.
7084 microfiches
Each plenum section is preceded by index.
Organization:
Fiches 1-80 -- Plenum I, 1922
Fiches 81-128 -- Plenum II, 1922
Fiches 129-279 -- Plenum III, 1923
Fiches 280-297 -- Plenum IV, 1924
Fiches 298-908 -- Rasshirennyĭ plenum V, 1925
Fiches 909-1686 -- Rasshirennyĭ plenum VI, 1925-1926
Fiches 1687-2862 -- Rasshirennyĭ plenum VII, 1926-1927
Fiches 2863-3153 -- Plenum VIII, 1927
Fiches 3154-3544 -- Plenum IX, 1928
Fiches 3545-4346 -- Plenum X, 1929
Fiches 4347-4961 -- Plenum XI, 1930-1931
Fiches 4962-6245 -- Rasshirennyĭ plenum XII, 1932-1933
Fiches 6246-7084 -- Rasshirennyĭ plenum XIII, 1933-1934
Comintern Archives: files of the Communist Party of Mexico
29 microfilm reels
Contents note: "The original documents have been filmed with the equipment of IDC Publishers at the Russian State Archive of Political and Social History (RGASPI), Moscow."
Files in collection are numbered: Fond 495, Opis' 108, Delo 1-230.