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，其形式是编辑1920年2月在阿姆斯特丹举行的由共产国际阿姆斯特丹分局主持的国际会议的会议记录和警察报告，以及由该分局向欧洲和美国的左翼社会主义者分发的传单。本报告收集了近200页的英文、德文、法文和荷兰文的主要文件。文本本身表明，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，分局的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信件，这个论证就更有说服力了。作为一个案例研究，我开始了与日本社会主义者的通信，并于2000年6月在《大原社会研究所月刊》上发表了“日本社会主义者与共产国际阿姆斯特丹分会的通信，1919-1920”，此外，2001年1月在同一杂志上发表了“片山森在墨西哥的信件和手稿，1921年”（两者都收集在本报告中，每个英文摘要）。在后者的社论说明中，我明确指出了阿姆斯特丹分局与泛美机构之间更为密切的关系，泛美机构是共产国际执行委员会在分局解散后设立的，并接管了其在北美和南美的任务，我还指出，阿姆斯特丹分局掌握着两个分局的生死大权，事实上，它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.