Collection Komintern - CPH/CPN

Period 1919-1945
Total size  48 microfilms
ConsultationNot restricted
Repository  Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

History

The COMINTERN closely monitored adhering national communist parties; the strategies of the Communistische Partij Holland (CPH) were discussed within the COMINTERN at congresses, by its Executive Committee, by regional secretariats, by ad hoc commissions and at the COMINTERN Bureau in Berlin. Preceded by the Sociaal-Democratische Partij (SDP), founded in 1909 as a split-away from social democracy, the CPH was established in 1919; it was torn by conflict in the 1920s, resulting in the temporary existence of two communist parties; from 1935 until its dissolution in 1991 it was named Communistische Partij van Nederland (CPN).

Content

Selection of documents concerning the CPH and its (internal) oppositional groups consisting of minutes, reports, mandatory letters, resolutions and correspondence (mainly in German) from the archives of the COMINTERN and of organizations connected with the COMINTERN, including the Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe, Internationale Rote Hilfe, Lenin Schule, Kommunistische Jugend Internationale, Rote Sport Internationale, Rote Gewerkschafts Internationale and Rote Bauern Internationale; documents written by Comintern representatives in Spain during the Civil War concerning Dutch participants in the International Brigades; propaganda and other materials sent to Moscow by the CPN (mainly in Dutch).

NB. Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 488-495, 533-535, 537, 539, 545.

N.B. De microfilms zijn op te vragen onder vermelding 'Comintern/CPH' + het nummer van de rol. Gebruikelijke bronvermelding: RCChIDNI, fondsnr./'opis'=inventarisnr./documentnr., bij voorbeeld RCChIDNI 495/25/1.
N.B. Doorgaans zijn de documenten Duitstalig, soms met Engelse en/of Franse vertaling. Alleen wanneer de documenten Russischtalig zijn, is dit vermeld: 'Ru'.
N.B. Over de mogelijkheden van kopiëren van, c.q. publiceren uit dit archief raadpleegt men in eerste instantie het studiezaalpersoneel van het IISG.
NB. A complete set of photocopies of film no. 45 on Dutch participants in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War is on request available in the reading room of the IISH.

Arrangement

List of the accrual is made by Gerrit Voerman (films nos. 46-48)

Secondary creator

CPH. CPN. Komintern.

Location of originals

Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 488-495, 533-535, 537-539, 545