Twenty-one Conditions for admission

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The Twenty-one Conditions for admission were a set of strict guidelines established in 1920 that defined the ideological and organizational requirements for parties seeking to join the Communist International (Comintern).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Comintern resolution
party admission criteria
political document
adoptedAt Second Congress of the Communist International
adoptedBy Second Congress of the Communist International
adoptedInCity Moscow
adoptedInCountry Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
adoptedInYear 1920
aimsTo differentiate revolutionary communist parties from reformist socialist parties
ensure ideological homogeneity within the Comintern
appliesTo Communist parties
workers’ parties
associatedWithIdeology Marxism–Leninism
associatedWithOrganization Comintern
surface form: Communist International
criticizedBy reformist socialists
criticizedFor centralism and strict discipline
subordination of national parties to Moscow
dateOfAdoption 1920-07-25
defines ideological requirements for joining the Comintern
organizational requirements for joining the Comintern
hasAlternativeName 21 Conditions for admission to the Communist International
Twenty-one Conditions for admission
surface form: Twenty-one Conditions
hasAuthor Comintern
surface form: Executive Committee of the Communist International
hasKeyFigureInDebate Grigory Zinoviev
Karl Radek
Vladimir Lenin
hasNumberOfConditions 21
hasPoliticalOrientation far-left
hasPrimarySubject party membership in the Communist International
hasSectionCount 21
historicalContext post–World War I revolutionary wave
split between Second International and Communist International
influenced formation of new communist parties in Europe
splits within existing socialist and social democratic parties
languageOfDocument French
German
Russian
partOf Comintern
surface form: Communist International
regulates admission of parties to the Communist International
setsRequirement acceptance of the dictatorship of the proletariat
adoption of the name Communist Party
conduct of systematic communist propaganda and agitation
creation of a centralised and disciplined party structure
obligation to follow decisions of the Communist International
purging reformist and opportunist elements from the party
recognition of the leading role of the Communist International
subordination of parliamentary work to revolutionary goals
support for Soviet Russia

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Comintern notablePolicy Twenty-one Conditions for admission
Twenty-one Conditions for admission hasAlternativeName Twenty-one Conditions for admission
this entity surface form: Twenty-one Conditions