1. Several recent studies have considered the role played by Communism in the history of the 20th century, as political orientation and organization: Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism (New York: Ecco; London: Bodley Head, 2009);
2. Silvio Pons, The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism, 1917–1991, trans. Allan Cameron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); David Priestland, The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World (New York: The Grove Press, 2009); Robert Service, Comrades: A History of World Communism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: Macmillan, 2007); Steve A. Smith, ed., Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Though arguing from various political points of view their focus remains on traditional political history, not on Communism as a collective experience and the Comintern as the site of a particular type of militant practice.
3. Reinhart Koselleck, ‘“Space of Experience” and “Horizon of Expectation”: Two Historical Categories’, in Koselleck, ed., Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, trans. Keith Tribe (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), pp. 349–375, here p. 354.
4. Gleb Albert, ‘From “World Soviet” to “Fatherland of All Proletarians”. Anticipated World Society and Global Thinking in Early Soviet Russia’, Inter Disciplines. Journal of History and Sociology 3:1 (2012), pp. 85–119, available at
http://www.inter-disciplines.de
/bghs/index.php/indi/article/view/53 (last retrieved 13 January 2014).
5. Annie Kriegel, Aux origines du communisme français 1914–1920. Contribution à l’Histoire du mouvement ouvrier français, vol. 2 (Paris, La Haye: Mouton & Co, 1964), p. 873.