8. The Fourth World Congress

The Fourth World Congress

Editor’s Note:

The Fourth – and last Leninist – Congress of the Comintern convened on 5 November 1922 in Petrograd, with the remaining sessions up to 5 December 1922 being held in Moscow. There were 408 delegates from sixty-one countries in attendance; 343 delegates had decisive votes.

The agenda included twenty-four items. The report of the ECCI was delivered by Zinoviev. Lenin, Zetkin and Bela Kun were the reporters on the ‘Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Perspectives of the World Revolution’. The report on the NEP was given by Trotsky.

The problems of the united front and of the formation of a workers’ government were the most important tactical questions discussed, along with that of trade union tactics.

Internal situations in various parties received particular attention in following order: France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Turkey, Denmark, Yugoslavia.

The question of programme came up as the fifth point on the agenda, with drafts presented by Bukharin (USSR), Thalheimer (Germany) and Kabakchiev (Bulgaria). No programme was adopted.