Comintern figures (1920-1928)

Columns demonstrating in honor of the Second Congress of the Comintern exiting from the arch above the entrance to the Smolny Palace in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. A meeting of foreign delegates arriving for the Fourth Congress of the Comintern at the Moscow train station in November 1922. A tram carrying delegates travels through the streets of Moscow, accompanied by a cavalry escort.

Meetings of delegates to the Second and Fourth Congresses of the Comintern in Petrograd and Moscow (alternating).

Delegates to the Second Congress of the Comintern exit from under the arch above the entrance to the Smolny Palace.

Photographs of delegates to the Comintern congresses from Latin American countries in their registration cards.

Chinese delegates conversing.

Chilean delegate Luis Emilio Recabarrena among the delegates.

The mandate on a piece of silk, issued to Recabarrena, in an archival file.

A panorama of the Tauride Palace hall during the session of the Second Congress of the Comintern in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. V. I. Lenin speaks from the rostrum of the Tauride Palace.

Delegates applaud Lenin. V. I. Lenin and S. S. Zorin are among the delegates of the Second Congress of the Comintern at the Tauride Palace.

Military parade on Red Square in honor of the Second Congress of the Comintern on July 27, 1920. Congress delegates greet the passing troops.

Demonstration columns pass by an artificial mound near the Kremlin wall with a gazebo for delegates.

Military parade on Red Square in 1921. M. I. Kalinin and Sen Katayama on Red Square during the parade in 1924. Cavalry and armored units of the Red Army pass through Red Square.

A passenger train carrying delegates of the 4th Comintern Congress leaving the USSR stands on the tracks during a winter stop at the border in December 1922. Smoke billows from the locomotive's chimney.

The train pulls away, passengers waving while standing on the steps of the carriages.

The train crosses the border under an arch with a slogan, photographed by V.I. Lenin.

Mounted border guards stand at a post.

The train recedes into the distance.

Clashes between workers' demonstrations in New York and Berlin, activists are detained.

A "Red Front" rally in Berlin on May 27, 1927. William Foster speaks at a workers' rally in the United States in the first half of the 1920s.

Views of the rally (from above).