Coordinating body established by labour and socialist organizations, including:
First International or
International Working Men's Association (186472), formed in London under Karl
Marx;
Second International (18891940), founded in Paris;
Third (Socialist) International or
Comintern (191943), formed in Moscow by the Soviet leader Lenin, advocating from 1933 a popular front (communist, socialist, liberal) against the German dictator Hitler;
Fourth International or
Trotskyist International (1938), somewhat indeterminate, anti-Stalinist;
Revived Socialist International (1951), formed in Frankfurt, Germany, a largely anticommunist association of social democrats.
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