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Third International
- The victorious Allies, meeting in Paris, defined a new world order excluding communist Russia.
- Russia's communists formed the Third International to unite communist revolutionaries against this bourgeois order.
Founding Congress
- The Third International's founding congress in Moscow was a small event due to blockades.
- Most delegates were already in Russia, primarily from the former Russian Empire.
Chappan Rebellion
- Despite Trotsky's praise of the Soviet system, local soviets faced increasing communist co-option.
- Peasants in the Volga region launched the Chappan Rebellion against the Soviet regime.