The article presents a study concerning the last stage of the existence of the World Anti-Imperialist League in 1930–1937, established in 1927 as a result of the World Anti-Imperialist Congress in Brussels. The author focuses on 1933–1937, the last years of the league’s existence. The organization fell into crisis after the Second Anti-Imperialist Congress (1929). A special emphasis in the article is placed on the internal conflicts that arose in connection with the modernization of the League within the organization itself, when those whose ideas were incompatible with the new principles and activities of the League (J. Nehru, J. Maxton, R. Baldwin, etc.) were excluded from its ranks. The author concludes that despite the fact that a number of non-partisan and non-communist figures left the League, the organization’s Secretariat managed to continue its expansion of the national liberation struggle in Asia and Africa. The author also considered the second crisis of the organization, which manifested after 1933, when the NSDAP came to power in Germany and the League Secretariat was forced to move to Paris and London. The study showed that although the League’s activities were suspended due to the loss of contacts with national sections, the French section in Paris managed to expand and deepen the League’s efforts to attract new members. In conclusion, the author states that the French section of the League ceased to exist due to the changes in the international situation associated with the rise of militaristic and fascist sentiments in the late 1930s.
К. А. Беспалова (Thu,) studied this question.