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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Russian Komintern, from Kommunisticheski? Internatsional Communist International Date: 1923 the Communist International established in 1919 and dissolved in 1943

Britannica Concise

Association of national communist parties founded in 1919. V. Lenin called the first congress of the Comintern to undermine efforts to revive the Second International. To join, parties were required to model their structure in conformity with the Soviet pattern and to expel moderate socialists and pacifists. Though the Comintern's stated purpose was the promotion of world revolution, it functioned chiefly as an organ of Soviet control over the international communist movement. In 1943, during World War II, J. Stalin dissolved the Comintern to allay fears of communist subversion among his allies.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the Third International (see INTERNATIONAL n. 2), a communist organization (1919-43). Etymology: Russ. Komintern f. Russ. forms of communist, international