The Borodin mission is a telling episode in the formative months of the Communist International, pointing to the importance of contingency, individual agency, and transnational activism in the establishment of the inter national communist movement.Īnti-Fascist Exile, Political Print Media and the Variable Tactics of the Communists in Mexico (1939–1946): The Case of Hannes Meyer and Lena Meyer-Bergner Sandra Neugärtner University of Erfurt Abstract: This article deals with the role of the political print media popular with communists in Mexico when anti-fascism became the code for the behaviour of democratic forces in the face of the provocation of Hitler’s fascism.
However, the potential for vigorous communist movements remained largely untapped due to the recklessness of Borodin and his aides. Through them, Borodin tried to mobilise the widespread euphoria for Bolshevism that existed among sectors of the Mexican and the Spanish left. In order to do this, he latched onto pre-existing networks of transnational activism and recruited a posse of young, committed, and cosmopolitan cadre.
He helped create the Mexican and the Spanish communist parties. From Mexico to Moscow via Madrid: the Borodin mission and the origins of communism in Mexico and Spain, 1919-20 Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez Institute of Historical Research, Humanities Division National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Abstract: This article traces the steps of Mikhail Borodin, the first Comintern representative in Mexico and Spain, in 1919-20.
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