Books on the Internationals?

[The Idler]

Is there a book about all of the Internationals? 1st (1864), 2nd (1889), 3rd (1919), 4th (1938) and proposed 5th?

[JimmyJazz]

I've looked really hard for the same thing, but I've never found it.

I've found a few books about the 1st:
book 1 (http://www.amazon.com/Karl-Marx-British-Labour-Movement/dp/B000L38R7Y/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1), book 2 (http://www.amazon.com/Karl-Marx-First-International-Padover/dp/0070480818/ref=cm_lmf_tit_2), book 3 (http://www.amazon.com/Marx-Engels-Contribution-Breakthrough-Contemporary/dp/0791444902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225048007&sr=1-1), plus any biography of K Marx

2nd:
book (http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Second-International/dp/B000WVY0XK/ref=cm_lmf_tit_5); plus this (http://www.amazon.com/May-Day-History-International-1886-1986/dp/0717806332/ref=cm_lmf_tit_4) and this (http://www.amazon.com/War-Zimmerwald-Origins-Communist-Internationalism/dp/1931859825/ref=ed_oe_p) are very related

and 3rd:
books (http://www.amazon.com/The-Comintern/lm/R2CXSYJ5TUZHGG/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full)

Bottom line though, no, there isn't a book that covers the first three, much less also the fourth. Best to just read the wiki articles on them and then pick a book on the specific international you want to know more about.

[Charles Xavier]

Is there a book about all of the Internationals? 1st (1864), 2nd (1889), 3rd (1919), 4th (1938) and proposed 5th?

Read some of the speeches of the third International they are quite good.

Marx and Engels wrote extensively about the 1st, Lenin participated in the 2nd until its dissolution at the beginning of ww1 and founded the third.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Trotsky's 'The Third International After Lenin' is required reading:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

And there is an article on the Fourth International by Duncan Hallas, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1973/xx/fidecline.htm

You can also read his book on the Comintern, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1985/comintern/index.htm

And his articles on the same, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/index.htm

Also relevant is Alex Callinicos's book on Trotskyism:

http://www.marxists.de/trotism/callinicos/index.htm

[Charles Xavier]

Trotsky's 'The Third International After Lenin' is required reading:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

And there is an article on the Fourth International by Duncan Hallas, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1973/xx/fidecline.htm

You can also read his book on the Commintern, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1985/comintern/index.htm

And his articles on the same, here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/index.htm

Also relevant is Alex Callinicos's book on Trotskyism:

http://www.marxists.de/trotism/callinicos/index.htm

Wow... these articles are pretty anti-communist.

[Q]

Wow... these articles are pretty anti-Stalinist.

Fixed.

[Trystan]

:lol:

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

GD:


these articles are pretty anti-communist.

As QC notes: anti-Stalinist, yes -- but that is one of their many strengths.:)

[Hit The North]

A book on the history of the workers' internationals would be an essential but monumental work.

In lieu of finding one, however, comrades could do worse than visit the Working-class Internationalism and Organization history page on MIA which is replete with links to articles and speeches from all four internationals as well as the forerunner of the 1st WI, the Communist League:

http://www.marxists.org/history/international/index.htm

[Holden Caulfield]

What about this one here (http://socialistworld.net/pubs/history/00.html)

[Junius]

I'm reading The Comintern - Historical Highlights.

Has a very detailed section into Stalin's massacre of various internationalists and socialists: the extermination of the Zimmerwald Left, the annihilation of the Polish Communist party, the extermination of the leaders of the Yugloslav party, the murder of the German Communist leaders, victims of the NKVD from Finland to Greece, murders of Italian Left Communists, with political backgrounds of the victims. Also has transcripts of Bordiga and others at the Congress of Marseille.

[Hit The North]

What about this one here (http://socialistworld.net/pubs/history/00.html)

Tut-tut. That is a link to the history of your very little party, not an account of the mass workers internationals. Naughty. :sneaky: