Red Peasant International
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Red Peasant International, generally called by its Russian abbreviation Krestintern, was an international peasants organization formed by the Communist International in October 1923.
Member organizations of Krestintern (incomplete list):
- Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
- Croatian Peasants Party (affiliated 1924 - 1925)
- Irish Working Farmers' Committee
- Mexican peasants' leagues (affiliated in 1923)
- Philippine Confederation of Peasants (affiliated in 1929)
Vietnamese national leader Ho Chi Minh was working in the standing committee of Krestintern in the mid-1920s.
[edit] Bibliography
George D. Jr. JACKSON, Comintern and Peasant in East Europe (1919-1930), Columbia University Press, 1966
