Red Peasant International

The Red Peasant International, generally called by its Russian abbreviation Krestintern, was an international peasants organization formed by the Communist International in October 1923. The organization was dissolved in 1939.

The communists competed with agrarian parties for the support of the peasantry in Eastern Europe. The agrarians had organized into the International Agrarian Bureau.

Member organizations of Krestintern (incomplete list):

• Croatian Peasants Party (affiliated 1924 - 1925)
• Irish Working Farmers' Committee
• Mexican peasants' leagues (affiliated in 1923)
• Philippine Confederation of Peasants (Katipunan ng mga Anakpawis ng Pilipinas) (affiliated in 1929)

Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh worked on the standing committee of Krestintern in the mid-1920s.

Further reading

• Lowell K. Dyson, "Red Peasant International in America," Journal of American History, vol. 58 (1972), pp. 958-973.
• George D. Jackson, Jr., Comintern and Peasant in East Europe (1919-1930). New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

External links

• La Krestintern y La Liga Antiimperialista
• Le Parti communiste français à la campagne, 1920-1964.