Basic Research on the Amsterdam Sub-Bureau of the Comintern

这项研究被认为是全面研究的第一步，它是以编辑1920年2月在阿姆斯特丹召开的国际会议的会议记录和警察报告的形式进行的，这次会议是在共产国际阿姆斯特丹分局的主持下召开的，以及由该分局向欧洲和美国的左翼社会主义者散发的传单。本报告收集了英文、德文、法文和荷兰文的原始文件，长达近200页。文本本身表明，该分局与苏俄、英国、美国、德国、瑞士、比利时、西班牙和芬兰的社会主义运动建立了联系，其活动是共产国际早期最具国际规模的活动之一。如果再加上分局的大量书信往来，这种论证就更有说服力了。作为个案研究，我在2000年6月的《大原社会研究所月刊》上发表了《1919-1920年日本社会主义者与共产国际阿姆斯特丹分局的书信往来》，此外，2001年1月在同一份杂志上发表的“片山森在墨西哥的信件和手稿，1921年”（这两份文件都已收集在本报告中，附有每一份英文摘要）。我在后一篇文章的社论中，阐明了阿姆斯特丹分局和泛美机构之间的密切关系，泛美机构是在阿姆斯特丹分局解散后由共产国际执行委员会（ECCI）建立的，并接管了它在北美和南美的任务，并提出了这样一个观点，即ECCI对这两个分局都掌握着生与死的权力，事实上，单方面地废除了它们。

This research, which is regarded as the first step to the comprehensive research, has been carried out in the form of editing the proceedings of, and the police reports on, the international conference, held under the auspices of the Amsterdam Sub-Bureau of the Comintern at Amsterdam in February 1920, and the leaflets, distributed by the Sub-Bureau to the Left Socialists in Europe and America. The primary documents of up to nearly 200 pages in English, German, French and Dutch have been collected in this report. The text themselves demonstrate that the Sub-Bureau established contact with the socialist movement in Soviet Russia, England, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Finland and the activity of the Sub-Bureau was one of the most international scale of the early Comintern. When the enormous correspondence of the Sub-Bureau is added to taking into consideration, that demonstration becomes much more convincing.As a case study, I have taken up the correspondence with Japanese Socialists and published "The Correspondence between Japanese Socialists and the Amsterdam Sub-Bureau of the Comintern, 1919-1920" in June 2000 in Monthly Journal of Ohara Institute for Social Research, and, furthermore, "The Letters and Manuscripts of Sen Katayama in Mexico, 1921" in January 2001 in the same journal (Both have been collected in this report with each English summary) . In the editorial notes of the latter I have made clear the closer relations between the Amsterdam Sub-Bureau and the Pan American Agency, which was established by the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI) after the dissolution of the Sub-Bureau and took over its task in North and South America, and raised the point that the ECCI held the power of life and death over both branches and, in fact, abolished them one-sidedly.