DEALING WITH MOSCOW - THE COMINTERN AND T HE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST-PARTY IN AUSTRALIA

Most historians of Australian communism emphasise the derivative chara cter of the doctrine and the dependence of the Communist Party of Aust ralia on instructions from Moscow. This account of the formation and f irst decade of the Party draws on Comintern records to explore the int ersection of local and international influences. It concludes that the Australian acceptance of Moscow's authority was belated, incomplete a nd self-imposed.