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| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| Founded after the dissolving of the Second International in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference in which Lenin led the "Zimmerwald Left" against those who supported the "national union" governments |
| The Comintern is founded at the Congress of the Third International |
| 1919 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 3rd Mar "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State" |
| 3rd Mar Founds an international Communist organization in the midst of the "war communism" period (1918-1921) |
| 3rd Mar The Comintern holds seven World Congress es, the first in March 1919 and the last in 1935, until it was officially dissolved in May 1943 |
| 1919 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International |
| The Comintern is founded at the Congress of the Third International |
| Zinoviev becomes the 1st President of Comintern |
| 1920 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| The second congress lays down the "Twenty-one Conditions " for membership, firmly establishing a differentiation between the socialist parties and the Communist parties |
| 1925 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Communist International, Comintern |
| 1935 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| The Comintern abandons the membership policies established under the "Twenty-one Conditions " and begins to form coalitions, or popular fronts, with bourgeois parties |
| 1936 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Germany and Japan conclude the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact, ostensibly to protect the world from the Third International |
| 1941 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| The Anti-Comintern Pact is renewed with 11 additional countries as signatories |
| 1943 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Dissolves the Comintern |
| In order to allay the misgivings of its allies in World War II, the Soviet Union dissolves the Comintern |
