Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

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This article has two objectives. One is to examine the ways in which communism in Argentina used the October Revolution, the Soviet regime and the Comintern as references. The emergence of this political force is first reconstructed as a process of ideological-political redefinition that had a local imprint and that gave it peculiar characteristics. The other, more specifically, is to explore the labyrinthic early relationship of this current with the Comintern, an intimate, clandestine history. In the complex, changing and difficult ties between Buenos Aires and Moscow, a series of Russian emigres temporarily based in Río de la Plata played an important role, as did a later-renowned Argentine-German, the cadres of the International and, of course, the local party leaders.

This article adds a new twist to the role of Mexico as a revolutionary “emporium” and point of transnational encounter between international communism and regional radicalism. Going against the majority view of transnationalism as a melting pot for major social and cultural transformations, this article indicates challenges and adverse results, given the complexities of this experience. Being agents of conflict, it indicates the particularities of the communist collective gathered together in the Mexican capital, such as the multinational character of the networks affiliated with the Comintern and the conflictive personalities of some of their members. It also offers specific examples of personal clashes and their outcomes for the internal stability of the movement and its representative organizations.