Wpływ Międzynarodówki Chłopskiej na rozwój rewolucyjnego ruchu chłopskiego
The impact of the Peasants’ International on the development of the revolutionary peasant movement

Summary/Abstract: The Peasants’ International, known by its Russian name of Kriestintern, was established in October 1923 and lasted until the beginning of February 1931. The PI was founded under the influence of the experience of the Russian revolution when the Communists realized that they were unable to seize power without a support from peasants. The Peasants’ International had difficulties with getting into a direct touch with the peasants although it had recognized them as a revolutionary force and sup-ported the establishment of dependent peasants’ organisations that had a transitory nature, that is they existed only until the revolution had won its victory. The future socialist countries were to be established as mono-party systems. The PI was fairly successful although it had had a difficult birth, caused among others by the fact that at the moment of its inception agrarian folk parties were well rooted in many countries. Moreover, in the Komintern there was no clarity as to the nature of the PI, as there was no clarity among the activists of the latter. In reality, the PI was a legal venture of the Communist International created to undertake activi-ties in the countryside. The Communists made many mistakes dealing with the peasants – the class they had intended to annihilate in the future. Despite all this, the PI during its whole existence, especially in the years 1924-1926, gained a considerable influence. It consisted in total of 24 national sections which were active in different periods. The biggest number of sections – 11 – there existed in Europe. Asia and the Far East ranked as the second. In general, the Kriestintern was active or tried to be active in at least 58 countries in all of the continents, apart from Australia.

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