Kominterna

Comintern is the seventh volume of the Modern Social Library (MOSK). The author is signed under the pseudonym Rys, and the booklet is printed in the format of a popular 32-page brochure. It was part of a publishing series launched by the Croatian Catholic Academic Society "Domagoj" with the aim of informing the public about social, political and ideological issues of the time.

The publication is dedicated to the Communist International (Comintern), an international organization founded in 1919 in Moscow to connect and guide communist parties around the world. The author attempts to present its organizational structure, leading figures, working methods and propaganda activities, and to explain the way in which it spread revolutionary ideas from the Soviet Union to other countries. Special attention is paid to the political goals of the Comintern and its role in promoting world revolution.

The text is written in a popular and polemical style, characteristic of MOSK publications. Communism and the Comintern are presented critically, as an ideological and political threat to social order, religion and national interests. The booklet seeks to familiarize readers with the basic concepts related to the international communist movement and warn them of its influence in Europe and the former Yugoslavia.

Today, the Comintern is a valuable historical source for the study of anti-communist journalism in Croatia between the two world wars. In addition to providing an overview of the then understanding of the international communist movement, it also bears witness to the efforts of Catholic intellectual circles to shape public opinion on important political and social issues of their time through short and accessible brochures.