DELEGATES TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL

Convention was held March 2-6, 1919 in Moscow.

The convention was attended by 34 delegates with decisive voice and 18 delegates with consultative voice.

 

RUSSIA: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) --- 5 votes.

Vladimir I. Lenin

Lev D. Trotsky

Grigorii E. Zinoviev

Iosef V. Stalin

Nikolai I. Bukharin

Georgii V. Chicherin

 

CONSULTATIVE DELEGATES (voice, no vote)

N. Osinsky ("V.V. Obolensky")

V.V. Vorovsky

 

GERMANY: Communist Party of Germany --- 5 votes.

Hugo Eberlein ("Max Albert")

 

UNITED STATES: Socialist Labor Party of America --- 5 votes.

Boris Reinstein

 


 

AUSTRIA: Communist Party of German Austria --- 3 votes.

Karl Steinhardt ("I. Gruber")

K. Petin

 

BULGARIA/ROMANIA: Balkan Revolutionary Social Democratic Federation --- 3 votes.

Christian Rakovsky

 

FINLAND: Communist Party of Finland --- 3 votes.

Yrjö Sirola

Kullervo Mannner

Otto Kuusinen

Jukka Rahja

Eino Rahja

 

HUNGARY: Communist Party of Hungary --- 3 votes.

Endre Rudnyanszky

 

NORWAY: Norwegian Social Democratic Party --- 3 votes.

Emil Stang

 

POLAND: Communist Party of Poland --- 3 votes.

Józef Unszlicht

 

SWEDEN: Swedish Left Social Democratic Party --- 3 votes.

Otto Grimlund

 

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Social Democratic Party (Opposition) --- 3 votes.

Fritz Platten

 

UKRAINE: Communist Party of Ukraine --- 3 votes.

N.A. Skrypnik

S.I. Gopner

 

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Social Democratic Party (Opposition) --- 3 votes.

Fritz Platten

 


 

ARMENIA: Communist Party of Armenia --- 1 vote.

Gurgen Haikun

 

CENTRAL ASIAN NATIONALITES: United Group of the Eastern Peoples of Russia --- 1 vote.

Mahomet Altimirov

Hussein Bekentayev

Kasim Kasimov

Burhan Mansurov

Gaziz Yalymov

 

ESTONIA: Communist Party of Estonia --- 1 vote.

Hans Pögelman

 

FRANCE: Zimmerwald Left of France --- 1 vote.

Henri Guilbeaux

 

GERMANS IN RUSSIA: Communist Party of the German Colonists in Russia --- 1 vote.

Gustav Klinger

 

LATVIA: Communist Party of Latvia --- 1 vote.

Karl Gailis

 

LITHUANIA/BELORUSSIA: Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia --- 1 vote.

Kazimir Gedris

 


 

CONSULTATIVE DELEGATES (voice, no vote)

 

AZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijani Section of the Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples.

Mir Djafar Baguirov

 

BULGARIA: Bulgarian Communist Group.

Stojan Dyorov

 

CHINA: Chinese Socialist Workers Party.

Liu Shao-zhou

Zhang Yong-kui

 

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Czech Communist Group.

Jaroslav Handlir

 

FRANCE: French Communist Group.

Jacques Sadoul

 

GEORGIA: Georgian Section of the Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples.

Tengiz Zhgenti

 

GREAT BRITAIN: British Communist Group.

Joseph Fineberg

 

KOREA: Korean Workers League.

Kain

 

NETHERLANDS: Dutch Social Democratic Group.

S.J. Rutgers

 

PERSIA: Persian Section of the Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples.

Mirza Davud Bagir-Uglu Gusseinov

 

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Communist Group.

Leonie Kascher

 

TURKESTAN: Turkestan Section of the Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples.

Gaziz Yalymov

 

TURKEY: Turkish Section of the Central Bureau of Eastern Peoples.

Mustafa Subhi

 

UNITED STATES: Socialist Propaganda League of America.

S.J. Rutgers

 

YUGOSLAVIA: Yugoslav Communist Group.

Iliya Milkic

 

ZIMMERWALD COMMITTEE:

Angelica Balabanova

 

 

source: John Riddell (ed.), Founding the Communist International: Proceedings and Documents of the First Congress, March 1919. (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1987), pp. 41-43.