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Africans in the Communist International: Discussions about Racial, Class and National Identity

Student: Markina Sofia

Supervisor: Irina Ivanovna Filatova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The predominant part of this research is dedicated to the theoretical reasoning of black communists about how to combine both striving for liberation and communist theory. One the one hand, self-determination was one of the Lenin’s covenant and Comintern policy, on the other, Communists International was concerned about nationalism as bourgeois phenomenon and Africans had to embed their struggle against oppression to communist discourse. The paper will focus on how Africans all over the world identify themselves and what was more important for them: class, race or nationality and was it possible to fight both for Africans and for working class.

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