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Dr. Merle Fainsod, instructor in government will give the second series of extra-curricular lectures sponsored by the Government Department starting December 4. These lectures, which will be on the subject "The Communist International," will be held on successive Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 o'clock in Harvard 3.
The Communist International is an international union of communist parties, established in 1919 with headquarters in Moscow. It represented an effort on the part of the Russian communists to organize the working class along international lines by fomenting a world revolution with the idea of establishing a world union Soviet States. Dr. Fainsod recently spent a year in Russia as a Sheldon travelling fellow.
"The lectures," said Dr. Fainsod, "will discuss the history of the Third, or Communist International, against the background of earlier efforts at social internationalism. The first two lectures will focus attention of the challenge to traditional loyalties involved in the effort to create an international labor community based on class. The remaining lectures will trace the transformation of the Communist international.
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