Pathfinder Press books Archives - John Riddell

Next Steps for Comintern Publication Project

John Riddell — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:07:28 +0000

By Mike Taber: The publication project on the Communist International (Comintern) under Lenin was begun in 1983 by Pathfinder Press, under the general editorship of John Riddell. Fifteen years after Pathfinder discontinued work on the project in the early 1990s, it was restarted by John Riddell with vital publishing assistance from the Historical Materialism Book […]

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The Comintern’s Second Congress: A Centennial Introduction

John Riddell — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 13:34:35 +0000

See also appendix, “Study Aids for the Second Congress” By John Riddell: The Second Congress of the Communist International (Comintern), convened in Moscow precisely 100 years ago, on July 19, 1920. Its deliberations, spread over almost three weeks, represent the best single introduction to the thought and dynamics of global communism during Lenin’s lifetime. The […]

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Comintern Project Book List Tops a Dozen

John Riddell — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:02:43 +0000

The Communist International Publishing Project 1983-2021 General Editors: John Riddell and Mike Taber With eight volumes of the originally projected series have now been published, with another scheduled for 2020. In addition, three related collaborative projects are completed or in preparation. All published books on the list, below, are available both at libraries and for […]

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35 years of Comintern publishing: A balance sheet

John Riddell — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:13:43 +0000

The following text is a much expanded and updated version of a talk that I gave in 2013, under the title “Toward the United Front: Translations for the Twenty-First Century.” For a list of my related online articles on the Communist International, see “Lenin’s Comintern Revisited: Index.” –JR By John Riddell: In June 1983, after […]

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Communist International Publishing Project: List of Books

John Riddell — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:38:39 +0000

By John Riddell: The record of the Communist International (Comintern) during Lenin’s lifetime, 1919-23, is widely considered by Marxists to form the foundation of revolutionary socialist policy in the modern era. Nonetheless, many of the basic documents of this movement were long unavailable in English. Since 1983, I have worked with Mike Taber and a […]

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Lars Lih: ‘To the Masses’ is ‘A triumphant climax’ to an ‘epic scholarly venture’

John Riddell — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:07:23 +0000

Lars Lih, a noted historian of Russian Marxism, here assesses the newly published proceedings of the Communist International’s Third Congress (1921), placing it in the context of a 33-year project to publish the records of the revolutionary socialist movement in the era of the great Russian revolution. – JR By Lars T. Lih. The publication […]

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‘Toward the United Front’: Translations for the twenty-first century

John Riddell — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:28:37 +0000

On February 3, 120 socialists took part in a Toronto meeting to celebrate publication of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, available in paperback from Haymarket Books. This 1,300-page volume is the seventh book of documents on the world revolutionary movement in Lenin’s time edited by John Riddell. […]

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The Communist International in Lenin’s Time

John Riddell — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:09:33 +0000

Documentary volumes, edited by John Riddell The six volumes of this important series, published between 1984 and 1993 by Pathfinder Press, include hundreds of newly translated documents, speeches and resolutions, most of them unavailable in English anywhere else. All volumes are still in print. The six Pathfinder books document the left-wing’s fight for revolutionary policies in the […]

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