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By “The Moskvin Commission” Executive Committee of the Communist International, ECCI (Executive Committee of the Communist International, Executive Committee of the 3rd International)

Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939

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Memorandum on the results of the work of the commission of the ECCI Secretariat to verify the qualifications of the ECCI apparatus, 5 February 1937. RGASPI, f. 495, op. 21, d. 52, ll. 23–25. Original in Russian. Typewritten with handwritten corrections.

5 February 1937

Top secret.

MEMORANDUM

ON THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE ECCI SECRETARIAT'S COMMISSION TO VERIFY THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ECCI APPARATUS.

For materials relating to the Moskvin Commission, see f. 495, op. 21, d. 52, ll. 4–25.

During the time of its work, the commission reviewed 387 cases of workers of the ECCI apparatus and of the international organizations.

The cases reviewed can be broken down according to individual sections and sectors:

1. Workers of the Secretariats	69
2. ICC	2
3. Cadres Department	37
4. Bureau of the Secretariat	25
5. Translations Department	60
6. Propaganda Department	39
7. Public[ations] Sector	15
8. Editorial Board of the Kommunisticheskii Internatsional	20
9. Representatives of the parties	26
10. Sections	32
11. Party Committee and Local [Trade Union] Committee	2
12. KIM	1
13. Foreign Workers' Publishing House	11
14. Various international organizations	48

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	By party composition:
1. Members of the VKP(b)	107
2. Members of the VLKSM [Komsomol]	25
3. Non-party members	66
4. Members of the fraternal parties	189

	including:
1. CP of Germany	92
2. “ ” France	7
3. “ ” England	10
4. “ ” USA	9
5. “ ” Austria	9
6. “ ” Romania	3
7. “ ” Yugoslavia	3
8. “ ” Hungary	3
9. “ ” Latvia	4
10. “ ” Lithuania	3
11. “ ” Italy	4
12. “ ” Turkey	2
13. “ ” Iran	1
14. “ ” Poland	3
15. “ ” Czechoslovakia	8
16. “ ” Norway	2
17. “ ” Brazil	2
18. “ ” Finland	5
19. “ ” Holland	1
20. “ ” Belgium	2
21. “ ” Australia	1
22. “ ” Switzerland	3
23. “ ” Greece	2
24. “ ” Bulgaria	6
25. “ ” Denmark	1
26. “ ” Syria	1
27. “ ” China	1
28. “ ” Cuba	1

Of all the cases that were reviewed, according to the preliminary decision of the Commission, 71 people were slated to be removed from the ECCI apparatus and the international organizations.

After additional verification in the course of the Commission's work and after revising its previous decisions, the Commission considers it necessary to relieve from work in the ECCI apparatus and in the international organizations only 58 people (rather than 71 people).

In the Commission's opinion, 14 [13] people, about whom a decision had

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been previously made to remove [them from work], can be temporarily kept in the apparatus until adequate replacements are found.

Distribution of those to be removed [from work]:
1. The secretaries' apparatus	7 people
2. The Bureau of the Secretariat	2 ″
3. Translations Department	13 ″
4. Propaganda ″	6 ″
5. Cadres ″	2 ″
6. Editorial and Publishing [Department]	5 ″
7. Editorial Board of the Kommunisticheskii Internatsional	3 ″
8. ICC	1 ″
9. KIM	1 ″
10. Foreign Workers' Publishing House	7 ″
11. Various international organizations	9 ″
TOTAL	58 people.

The breakdown of those to be removed, by party affiliation:
1. VKP(b) members	10
2. KSM members	1
3. Non-party members	11
4. Members of the fraternal parties including:	35
1. CP of Germany	19
2. “ ” Hungary	1
3. “ ” Austria	2
4. “ ” Czechoslovakia	1
5. “ ” Yugoslavia	1
6. “ ” France	5
7. “ ” USA	1
8. “ ” Poland	3
9. “ ” Belgium	1
10. “ ” Italy	1
11. “ ” Sweden	1
12. “ ” Norway	1

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The breakdown of those slated to be removed, by political motives:
1. Ties to the counterrevolutionary group of E[mel] Lurye	6
2. “ ” “ ” “ ” David and Berman	5
3. “ ” “ ” “ ” E. Wendt	3
4. “ ” “ ” “ ” Süsskind	2
5. Trotskyist connections	16
6. Politically unreliable	4
7. Suspicious and not [previously] exposed	11
8. Unsuitable qualifications	4
9. Affiliated to the anti-party groups (of Brandler and others)	4

At this moment, 12 out of 57 people who are slated to be removed are no longer working in the apparatus, among them:

1. In the Secretariats	1 person(s)
2. In the Translations Department	5 ″
3. In the Cadres Department	1 ″
4. ICC	1 ″
5. Editorial Board of the Kommunisticheskii Internatsional	2 ″
6. Propaganda Department	2 ″

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Document TitleMemorandum on the results of the work of the commission of the ECCI Secretariat to verify the qualifications of the ECCI apparatus

Author“The Moskvin; Commission”; Executive Committee of the Communist; International, ECCI (Executive Committee of the Communist; International, Executive Committee of the 3rd; International)

RecipientExecutive Committee of the Communist; International, ECCI (Executive Committee of the Communist; International, Executive Committee of the 3rd; International)

RepositoryRGASPI

ID #f.495, op.21, d.52, ll.23-25

DescriptionN/A

Date1937 Feb 5

AOC VolumeEnemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939

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