Jugend-Internationale (German: The Youth International) was a monthly communist youth magazine which was published in Switzerland between 1915 and 1928. It was the official media outlet of the International League of Socialist Youth Organisations.
| Editor | Willi Münzenberg |
|---|---|
| Categories | Political magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Secretariat of the International League of Socialist Youth Organisations |
| Founder | International League of Socialist Youth Organisations |
| Founded | 1915 |
| Final issue | 1928 |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Based in | Zürich |
| Language | German |
History and profile
editJugend-Internationale was launched in Zürich by the International League of Socialist Youth Organisations in 1915.[1] Willi Münzenberg was named as its first editor.[1] Its publisher was the secretariat of the organization.[1] The magazine came out monthly,[2][3] and its first eleven issues were published in Zürich until 1918.[1] It supported the left-wing faction in the Swiss Social Democratic Party.[3] Major contributors included many leading communists, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Alexandra Kollontai, Karl Liebknecht, Otto Rühle, Eduard Bernstein, Friedrich Adler, and Robert Danneberg.[1] György Lukács, a member of the Hungarian Communist Party, also published articles in Jugend-Internationale in 1921.[4]
Eleven issues of Jugend-Internationale were also published in Russia, and four issues appeared in Denmark and Sweden.[1] Its circulation was 160,000 copies in 1921.[2] Jugend-Internationale folded in 1928.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Helmut Gruber (September 1966). "Willi Münzenberg's German Communist Propaganda Empire 1921-1933". The Journal of Modern History. 38 (3): 281. doi:10.1086/239912. S2CID 145096197.
- ^ a b c John Riddell, ed. (2015). To the Masses. Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. Vol. 91. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 1230. doi:10.1163/9789004288034_038. ISBN 9789004288034.
- ^ a b "Lenin – The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution". The Communists. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Károly Kókai (November–December 2017). "The Communist International and the Contribution of Georg Lukács in the 1920s". Social Scientist. 45 (11–12): 65. JSTOR 26405282.
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