Congress of the Peoples of the East

The Congress of the Peoples of the East was held in Baku in September 1920. The congress was first planned by Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev and the National Communists. However Stalin prevented Soltanğäliev from attending the congress, fearing that he would help consolidate his wing of the communist movement.^{[citation needed]}

It was attended by John Reed. Manabendra Nath Roy refused to go, dismissing it as 'Zinoviev’s circus’. However Abani Mukherji did attend.

The statutes of ERK where drawn up during this congress.

Attendance by nationality

1. Turks 235
2. Persians and Farsis 192
3. Armenians 157
4. Russians 104
5. Georgians 100
6. Chechens 82
7. Tajiks 61
8. Kirghizes 47
9. Jews 41
10. Turkmens 35
11. Kumyks 33
12. Lesghians 25
13. Ossetians 17
14. Uzbeks 15
15. Indians 14
16. Ingushes 13
17. Jamshidis 12
18. Hazaras 11
19. Sarts 10
20. Kabardians 9
21. Chinese 8
22. Kurds 8
23. Avars 7
24. Poles 5
25. Hungarians 3
26. Germans 3
27. Kalmucks 3
28. Koreans 3
29. Arabs 3
30. Tekintsi 2
31. Abkhazians 2
32. Bashkirs 1
33. Ukrainians 1
34. Croats 1
35. Czechs 1
36. Latvians 1

• Total 1275
• Total number attending the Congress 1891
• of whom, Communists 1273
• No nationality stated 266
• Did not complete above questionnaire 100
• Total number of women delegates 55

References

A complete index of speeches and transcripts may be found here: http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/baku/index.htm