Gleb J. Albert is researcher and lecturer at the Department of History, University of Zurich. He is co-editor of The International Newsletter of Communist Studies and has published on early Soviet history, the Comintern and the international communist movement, and the history of software piracy and home computing.

“Albert’s book forms a cornerstone for [...] future studies on revolutionary internationalism and deserves to be widely read by scholars of Soviet history and internationalism.”—Kasper Braskén, Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsEditorial Note1 Introduction2 ‘World Revolution’, the Bolsheviks and Soviet Society1 Bolshevik Internationalism through the World War and Revolution2 1918/19, 1923, 1926: Three World-Revolutionary ‘Windows of Opportunity’ in Their Soviet Reflection3 Activists and the Charisma of World Revolution1 Activists, Opportunists and Functionaries: Types of Early Soviet Political Actors2 The World Revolution as a ‘Delightful Thing’3 Communist World Society or Russian Domination? Activists Imagine the Future4 Internationalist Practices I: Charisma and Activism between the Revolution and NEP1 Informing, Performing and Intervening: Public Speech about the World Revolution2 Internationalist Greeting Messages and Their Authors3 The Bolshevik Provincial Press: From Activist Mouthpiece to ‘Mass’ Newspaper5 Internationalism and the Soviet ‘Masses’1 Ways and Means of Transmitting Internationalist Knowledge2 Reactions of the ‘Masses’: Disinterest, Resistance, Appropriation6 MOPR: The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in the obshchestvennost’7 International Practices II: Activism and obshchestvennost’ from NEP to Stalinism1 Donations and Fundraising: Class Solidarity, Philanthropy and Entertainment2 Objects and Subjects of ‘Shefstvo’: Comparing Two Types of International Sponsorship3 Internationalist Pen Pal Correspondence – Collective and Individual4 Banners Wanted: The Twists and Turns of International Flag Exchange5 Dealing with Comrades from Abroad: Foreign Representatives of the Labour Movement in the Soviet Union8 A Practice Forestalled: Going Abroad for the World Revolution9 Concluding RemarksBibliographyIndex