Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 25 Political and party leadership 3 Military command 1 Diplomacy and international organization 18 Ideology and propaganda 2 Social movements and organizing 1

State, movement or organization

All 222 Soviet Union 91 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 27 Left Opposition 15 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Narodnaya Volya 6 Left Communists 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 Comintern 1
All 32 affiliations by country

China

Communist Party of China 1

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

France

General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 Cordeliers Club 2 Enragés 1 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 2 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Poland

Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Narodnaya Volya 6 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 27 ↳ Left Communists 4 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 ↳ Workers' Opposition 2 ↳ Left Opposition 15 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Union 91

Spain

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Social movements and organizing · Comintern people 1

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Fernand Loriot

Fernand Loriot
Social movements and organizing Comintern France French origin not specifically documented 1870–1932

French socialist and teachers’ union activist who led the Committee for the Third International

He organised internationalist socialists against the war and served as secretary of the Committee for the Third International during the founding of the French Communist Party.

A teacher, Loriot joined the Socialist Party in 1901 and became active in the teachers’ union. During the First World War he opposed support for the war and backed the Zimmerwald position, serving as secretary of the Committee for the Resumption of International Relations and later the Committee for the Third International. At the Tours Congress in 1920 he joined the leadership of the newly formed French Communist Party.

Career timeline
  • 1901Joined the Socialist Party
  • 1917Became secretary of the Committee for the Resumption of International Relations
  • 1919Secretary of the Committee for the Third International
  • 1920Elected to the Executive Committee of the newly formed Communist Party and as international secretary at the Tours Congress
  • 1925Active in opposition to the party’s Bolshevisation
  • 1926Left the party and joined the revolutionary syndicalist movement