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.

Jugend-Internationale
EditorWilli Münzenberg
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherSecretariat of the International League of Socialist Youth Organisations
FounderInternational League of Socialist Youth Organisations
Founded1915
Final issue1928
CountrySwitzerland
Based inZürich
LanguageGerman

History and profile

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Jugend-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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Lenin – The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution". The Communists. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  4. ^ 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.