Description
In this unique historical document, the authors present and analyse documents and coded telegrams sent by the Soviet Komintern to Communist parties around Europe between 1939 and 1941. For the first time, an annotated, comprehensive collection of previously unpublished sources provides us with a direct testimony on the strategies, financing, and power struggles of European Communist organisations in the critical early years of the Second World War.
Filled with pseudonyms and code words, the 320 telegrams presented in this book read like a spy novel. And the spy game continues: although the archives used by the authors were opened briefly between 1991 and 1994, they have since been locked away again, indefinitely.