Amsterdam Bureau of the Communist International

The Amsterdam Bureau of the Communist International was an outpost of the Communist International established by the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) in September 1919. At the same time the ECCI also set up the Scandinavian Bureau in Stockholm, the Southern Bureau in Kiev, the Vienna Bureau, the Balkan Bureau and the Western Europe Secretariat.^[1] Sebald Rutgers was appointed secretary and dispatched from Moscow with a number of precious stones whose value accounted for the bulk of the twenty million roubles allocated by the ECCI to finance the bureau.^[2]

References

1. Kókai, Károly (2017). "The Communist International and the Contribution of Georg Lukács in the 1920s". Social Scientist. 45 (11/12): 63–72. ISSN 0970-0293. JSTOR 26405282.
2. Voerman, Gerrit. "Proletarian Competition. The Amsterdam Bureau and its German Counterpart, 1919–1920". kommunismusgeschichte.de. Retrieved 27 July 2022.