Abstract
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Communists in the Transnational World of the Comintern before the Great Purges
Highlights
The history of the Comintern and of the communist parties and organisations connected with the Comintern is a political history centred on transnational individuals for whom, in many cases, communist activity
Perry Anderson notes that the politics of the communist parties was determined by a complicated dialectic that existed between international and national factors.[3]
After the annulment of the treaty, three groupings had pretensions to power in the former Baltic provinces of the Russian empire: first, the Baltic Bolsheviks supported by Soviet Russia and directed by Narkomnats; second, the Estonian and Latvian provisional governments and the Lithuanian Taryba, supported by the Entente; third, the former Baltic German local elite with the Baltische Landeswehr and German troops sent to Courland in early 1919
Summary
The history of the Comintern and of the communist parties and organisations connected with the Comintern is a political history centred on transnational individuals for whom, in many cases, communist activity. After the annulment of the treaty , three groupings had pretensions to power in the former Baltic provinces of the Russian empire: first, the Baltic Bolsheviks supported by Soviet Russia and directed by Narkomnats; second, the Estonian and Latvian provisional governments and the Lithuanian Taryba, supported by the Entente; third, the former Baltic German local elite with the Baltische Landeswehr and German troops sent to Courland in early 1919. Among the leaders of these state-like creations were a number of individuals formerly belonging to the Stalin-led Narkomnats and the Zinoviev-led Peoples’ Commissariat of Nationalities of the UCNR, such as Pöögelmann, Anvelt, Roziṇš, Kārkliṇš, Gailis, Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Angarietis, Giedrys, Dimanstein, Zmicier Zhylonovich, et al But these three state-like formations proved short-lived thanks to the Entente-supported military units of the Estonian and Latvian Provisional Governments, the Lithuanian Taryba, the German and. The Bolsheviks were forced to leave Estonia as early as January 1919, and Latvia and Lithuania in May and August of the same year
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