Editorial Introduction
About This Edition
Acknowledgements
Proceedings
Session 1. Opening Session (5 November)
Session 2. Report of the Executive Committee (9 November)
Session 3. Report of the Executive Committee (Concluded),
Discussion (10 November)
Session 4. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (11
November)
Session 5. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (11
November)
Session 6. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Continued) (12
November)
Session 7. Discussion of Executive Committee Report (Conclusion)
(12 November)
Session 8. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives
for the World-Revolution (13 November)
Session 9. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives
for the World-Revolution (Continued) (14 November)
Session 10. Five Years of the Russian Revolution and Perspectives
for the World-Revolution (Concluded) (14 November)
Session 11. The Capitalist Offensive (15 November)
Session 12. Fascism; the Capitalist Offensive – Continued (16
November)
Session 13. Credentials Report; the Capitalist Offensive –
Concluded (17 November)
Session 14. Programme (18 November)
Session 15. Programme – Continued (18 November)
Session 16. Trade Unions (20 November)
Session 17. Trade Unions – Continued (20 November)
Session 18. Trade Unions (Summary); Programme; Workers’ Aid (21
November)
Session 19. The Eastern Question (22 November)
Session 20. The Eastern Question (Concluded) (23 November)
Session 21. The Agrarian Question (24 November)
Session 22. The Agrarian Question; Youth; Blacks (25 November)
Session 23. The Cooperative Movement (25 November)
Session 24. Communist Work among Women (27 November)
Session 25. Educational Work; Versailles Treaty (28 November)
Session 26. Versailles Treaty; Austria; Executive Reorganisation
(29 November)
Session 27. Executive Reorganisation; Yugoslavia; Egypt; Black and
Agrarian Questions (30 November)
Session 28. France (1 December)
Session 29. France, Spain, Denmark, Executive, Youth (2
December)
Session 30. Italy; Czechoslovakia (4 December)
Session 31. Workers’ Aid; Yugoslavia; Norway (5 December) 0000
Session 32. Various Resolutions; Election of ECCI; Close of
Congress (5 December)
Appendixes: Congress Resolutions and Appeals
Features in Historical Materialism
Features in the International Socialist Review
Promotion targeting left academic journals
Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism
conference
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking
engagements
John Riddell has translated and edited seven volumes of documents
of the Communist movement in the era of the Russian revolution. Two
further volumes now in preparation will complete this ambitious
project.
Riddell has here pulled off an immense and masterful editorial
effort, comparing past publications of these proceedings in the
four main languages of the Comintern – English, French, German and
Russian … The work involved in clarifying the differences between
texts, providing more accurate annotation, and correcting the
misspelling of names and providing relevant biographical details is
immense, and should earn the gratitude of generations of scholars
for many years to come.
—Alexander Marshall, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
We should be very grateful to John Riddell and his team of
collaborators for making available, for the first time in a full
English version, the minutes of the Fourth Congress of the
Comintern … [F]or anyone seeking to understand the history of the
20th century [Toward the United Front] will be an invaluable work
of reference, and no library with pretensions to serious historical
coverage should be without it …
—Ian Birchall, International Socialism
"John Riddell’s Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth
Congress of the Communist International is a tremendous work of
scholarship in the tradition of David Riazanov. The book is a
remarkable paperback of 1,300 pages, but it repays reading: it is a
manual for revolutionary socialist strategy, in the words of many
of its finest representatives."
—Paul Hampton, Worker's Liberty
"John Riddell is to be congratulated on assembling this fine volume
... Beg, borrow or do what you must to get a copy and read it. Its
size might seem intimidating but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it
from cover to cover.”
—Chris Bambery, ISG
Riddell has here pulled off an immense and masterful editorial
effort, comparing past publications of these proceedings in the
four main languages of the Comintern English, French, German and
Russian
The work involved in clarifying the differences between
texts, providing more accurate annotation, and correcting the
misspelling of names and providing relevant biographical details is
immense, and should earn the gratitude of generations of scholars
for many years to come.
Alexander Marshall, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
We should be very grateful to John Riddell and his team of
collaborators for making available, for the first time in a full
English version, the minutes of the Fourth Congress of the
Comintern
[F]or anyone seeking to understand the history of the
20th century [Toward the United Front] will be an invaluable work
of reference, and no library with pretensions to serious historical
coverage should be without it
Ian Birchall, International Socialism
"John Riddell’s Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth
Congress of the Communist International is a tremendous work of
scholarship in the tradition of David Riazanov. The book is a
remarkable paperback of 1,300 pages, but it repays reading: it is a
manual for revolutionary socialist strategy, in the words of many
of its finest representatives."
Paul Hampton, Worker's Liberty
"John Riddell is to be congratulated on assembling this fine volume
... Beg, borrow or do what you must to get a copy and read it. Its
size might seem intimidating but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it
from cover to cover.”
Chris Bambery, ISG
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