This is the official Soviet history of the Communist International - the Third International, the Comintern - from its founding under Lenin in March 1919 to its dissolution by Stalin in June 1943.It was produced by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU, by a group of seven historians headed by A. I. Sobolev, and issued under the modest Russian title Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, "short historical sketch". At some 207,000 English words it is neith...