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Communist International (Comintern) Archives at the Library of Congress

Contents of the Comintern Database

The INCOMKA project digitized more than a million document pages. Although this is not a small amount of material, it is only a fraction of the Comintern archive of more than 20 million pages. Perhaps more importantly, the project made available to off-site researchers the entire catalog of Comintern archival collections. Even when researchers find that documents of high interest are not among those digitized, the database provides detailed bibliographic descriptions of every delo (file) in the archive, which will enable them to judge whether it is worth traveling to RGASPI or having someone photocopy the material for them.

Below is a list of the Fondy (collections, abbreviated F.) and opisi (inventories/finding aids, abbreviated op.) scanned during the INCOMKA project. It is immediately apparent that the focus was Fond 495, the files of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). Fond 495 accounts for 57 of the 86 opisi and 7,049 (just over 75%) of the 9,366 files that were scanned. Nearly 85% of the files in these 86 opisi were scanned. The figures in parentheses indicate the number of files scanned and the number of digital images, respectively.

  1. F.488, op.1. First (founding) Congress of the Comintern (18 / 922)
  2. F.489, op.1. Second Congress of the Comintern (66 / 5,965)
  3. F.495, op.1. Comintern Executive Committee (ECCI) (112 / 12,195)
  4. F.495, op.2. ECCI Presidium (287 / 50,319)
  5. F.495, op.3. ECCI Political Secretariat (341 / 84,072)
  6. F.495, op.4. Political Commission of the ECCI Political Secretariat (463 / 71,741)
  7. F.495, op.6. ECCI Small Commission (50 / 2,497)
  8. F.495, op.7. ECCI Permanent Commission (37 / 4,028)
  9. F.495, op.11. Secretariat of ECCI Secretary W. Pieck (357 / 27, 675)
  10. F.495, op.12. Secretariat of P. Togliatti (171 / 14,564)
  11. F.495, op.13. Secretariat of K. Gottwald (74 / 4,563)
  12. F.495, op.13a. Secretariat of K. Gottwald (15 / 2,251)
  13. F.495, op.14. Secretariat of A. Marty (393 / 49,561)
  14. F.495, op.15. Secretariat of W. Florin (266 / 28,482
  15. F.495, op.16. Secretariat of O. Kuusinen (100 / 13,314)
  16. F.495, op.17. Secretariat of D. Ibarruri (355 / 12,825)
  17. F.495, op.18. ECCI Secretariat (1,196 / 131,302)
  18. F.495, op.24. ECCI Presidium (71 / 7,538)
  19. F.495, op.26. ECCI Orgbureau (31 / 4037)
  20. F.495, op.27. Illegal Commission of the ECCI Orgbureau (17 / 920)
  21. F.495, op.28. Central European Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (200 / 21,996)
  22. F.495, op.29. Communist Party of Brazil (144 / 11,402)
  23. F.495, op.31. Scandinavian Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (183 / 24,002)
  24. F.495, op.32. Latin Regional (France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland) Secretariat of the ECCI (232 / 31,942)
  25. F.495, op.35. Austrian Commission of the ECCI (11 / 777)
  26. F.495, op.36. Agrarian Commission of the ECCI (21 / 2424)
  27. F.495, op.37. American Commission of the ECCI (61 / 9,813)
  28. F.495, op.38. English Commission of the ECCI (32 / 3,235)
  29. F.495, op.39. Bulgarian Commission of the ECCI (6 / 498)
  30. F.495, op.40. Hungarian Commission of the ECCI (16 / 1,215)
  31. F.495, op.41. Dutch Commission of the ECCI (9 / 436)
  32. F.495, op.42. Indian Commission of the ECCI (15 / 1837)
  33. F.495, op.43. Italian Commission of the ECCI (16 / 1278)
  34. F.495, op.44. Chinese Commission of the ECCI (18 / 1,577)
  35. F.495, op.45. Korean Commission of the ECCI (28 / 1,506)
  36. F.495, op.46. ECCI Reorganization Commission (19 / 892)
  37. F.495, op.47. German Commission of the ECCI (22 / 4,329)
  38. F.495, op.48. Norwegian Commission of the ECCI (20 / 2,301)
  39. F.495, op.49. Polish Commission of the ECCI (38 / 3,715)
  40. F.495, op.50. ECCI Program Commission (17 / 1,094)
  41. F.495, op.51. ECCI Trade Union Commission (26 / 3,686)
  42. F.495, op.52. Romanian Commission of the ECCI (46 / 3,051)
  43. F.495, op.53. Scandinavian Commission of the ECCI (13 / 616)
  44. F.495, op.54. Ukrainian Commission of the ECCI (10 / 955)
  45. F.495, op.55. French Commission of the ECCI (27 / 4,213)
  46. F.495, op.56. Czechoslovak Commission of the ECCI (23 / 1,629)
  47. F.495, op.57. Swedish Commission of the ECCI (12 / 793)
  48. F.495, op.58. Yugoslav Commission of the ECCI (22 / 815)
  49. F.495, op.59. Japanese Commission of the ECCI (9 / 669)
  50. F.495, op.60. Various ECCI Commissions (278 / 12,913)
  51. F.495, op.61. Polish-Baltic Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (120 / 21,635)
  52. F.495, op.72. Anglo-American Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (178 / 18,272)
  53. F.495, op.77. Correspondence and Work among POWs in WWII (56 / 6,089)
  54. F.495, op.78. ECCI Publishing Department (191 / 21,677)
  55. F.495, op.79. Latin American Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (203 / 15,699)
  56. F.495, op.101. Latin American Regional Secretariat of the ECCI (45 / 5,153)
  57. F.495, op.102. Secretariat of D. Ibarruri (11 / 756)
  58. F.495, op.155. Negro Section of the ECCI Eastern Department (73 / 5,468)
  59. F.495, op.292. German Communist Party Representation in the ECCI (114 / 14,118)
  60. F.495, op.293. ECCI Materials on the Communist Part of Germany (159 / 14,138)
  61. F.496, op.1. Editorial Board of the Journal "Communist International" (99 / 10,071)
  62. F.497, op.1. Press bulletins and materials of the Amsterdam Bureau (11 / 982)
  63. F.497, op.2. Correspondence between the Amsterdam Bureau and the Leadership of the Communist Parties (11 / 1,000)
  64. F.498, op.1. Vienna (Southeastern) Bureau of the ECCI (52 / 4,431)
  65. F.499, op.1. West European Bureau of the ECCI (51 / 6,164)
  66. F.500, op.1. Caribbean (Central American) Bureau of the ECCI (19 / 1,029)
  67. F.502, op.1. Southern Bureau of the ECCI (22 / 3,108)
  68. F.504, op.1. Statistical Information Institute of the ECCI in Berlin (the Varga Bureau) (259 / 56,584)
  69. F.506, op.1. Cooperative Section of the ECCI (181 / 22,746)
  70. F.508, op.1. Protocols of Sessions of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) in the ECCI (134 / 3,940)
  71. F.508, op.2. Correspondence between the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) delegation and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) Central Committee (13 / 484)
  72. F.508, op.3. Correspondence between the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) delegation and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) Central Committee (14 / 2,251)
  73. F.526, op.1. E. Thälmann's Personal Fond (81 / 7,704)
  74. F.531, op.1. International Lenin School: Orders, Correspondence, Documents of Sections and Regional Groups (283 / 21,417)
  75. F.531, op.2. International Lenin School: Documents of Party, Komsomol, and Trade Union Organizations (129 / 7,972)
  76. F.538, op.1. International Workers Relief: Congresses and Conferences (13 / 1,762)
  77. F.538, op.2. International Workers Relief for the Hungry in Russia (115 / 15,974)
  78. F.538, op.3. International Workers Relief: Documents (202 / 32,318)
  79. F.540, op.1. International Federation of Revolutionary Theaters (120 / 13,790)
  80. F.540, op.3. International Federation of Revolutionary Theaters (3 / 392)
  81. F.541, op.1. International Federation of Revolutionary Writers (133 / 2,806)
  82. F.542, op.1. Committee of the Anti-imperialism League (80 / 7,831)
  83. F.543, op.1. International Anti-fascist Organizations (31 / 5,448)
  84. F.543, op.2. International Anti-fascist Organizations (44 / 4,749)
  85. F.551, op.1. Leipzig Trial (8 / 5,848)
  86. F.615, op.1. Personal Papers of W. Z. Foster (114 / 11,168)