The challenge of the times: the Comintern people in the face of growing military threats from the West (1920-1930s)

Abstract

The materials of the article are based on the declassified papers of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RSASPH), constituting the documentary basis of the publication. The subjects related to the mechanism of functioning of the Comintern in the field of anti-war activities aimed at preventing a new world war are highlighted. The focus is on unknown pages of illegal activities of the specialist in military work Tuure Lehén (Alfred Langer), a military intelligence officer and an employee of the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI), associated with ensuring the work of secret commissions created in the Organizational Department of the ECCI, in the 1920s-1930s.