Lenin’s Muchachos. A Database of Comintern and Front Organizations’ Personnel in Latin America, 1919-1943

Abstract

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras / Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia (US)

The present article is a preliminary report based upon the statistical analysis of a database on the personnel for the Comintern and other front organizations in Latin America between 1919 and 1943. The database is part of an ongoing research project, under the title “Su Casa Es Mi Casa: The Caribbean Bureau of the Comintern and the Charting of a Soviet Caribbean, 1930-1936.” Although the research project focuses on Comintern activity within the Caribbean region, the database will include information on Comintern personnel in Latin America, both natives and foreigners. In terms of the specific goals of the
database, several questions particularly informed the assessment, namely the relationship between center and periphery, the participation of Latin American communists in the Comintern, and the issue of a generational divide.