International Farmer and Peasant Council (Farmers' and Peasants' International) (Krestintern)
International Farmer and Peasant Council (Farmers' and Peasants' International) (Krestintern), Internationaler Bauernrat (Bauern-Internationale), Conseil Paysan International (L'Internationale Paysanne)
Founded: 1923
Sources:
HB 1929, HB 1936
Officers
Council of 61 members. Governing Board of 17 members/Conseil de soixante et un membres. Conseil d'administration de dix-sept membres.
Seats
Members in these countries
Organisations in the following countries and several colonial countries, and also the national association of the agricultural co-operatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:(HB 1929)
Organisations et particuliers dans les pays ci-après et dans plusieurs pays coloniaux.: (HB 1936)
Argentina
(since 1929)
,
Bolivia
(since 1936)
,
Bulgaria
(1929-1936)
,
Canada
(since 1929)
,
China
(since 1929)
,
Czechoslovakia
(since 1929)
,
Finland
(since 1929)
,
France
(since 1929)
,
Germany
(since 1929)
,
Greece
(since 1929)
,
India
(since 1929)
,
Iran
(since 1936)
,
Italy
(since 1929)
,
Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia
(1929-1936)
,
Korea
(since 1929)
,
Mexico
(since 1929)
,
Norway
(since 1929)
,
Persia
(1929-1936)
,
Philippines
(since 1929)
,
Poland
(since 1929)
,
Romania
(since 1929)
,
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(since 1929)
,
United States of America
(since 1929)
,
Yugoslavia
(since 1936)
,
Object
The international organisation of farmers and peasants and the defence of the economic, political, cultural and national interests of the toiling peasantry. (HB 1929)
Organisation internationale des agriculteurs et des paysans et défense des intérêts économiques, politiques, culturels et nationaux de la classe paysanne. (HB 1936)
Finances
Subscriptions from the affiliated organisations in proportion to their membership; income derived from publications. (HB 1929)
Cotisations des organisations affiliées, proportionnelles au nombre de leurs membres; recettes provenant de publications. (HB 1936)
General facts
Affiliated to the Council is the International Agrarian Institute (Moscow, Vozdvizhenka 14) which studies the economic problems of agriculture, the position of the farmers and peasants and the history of the peasant movement; it issues a journal, "Agrarian Problems" in German and Russian. (HB 1929)
Au Conseil est affilié l'Institut agraire international [Moscou, Vozdvizhenka 14] qui étudie les questions d'économie agricole, la situation des agriculteurs et des paysans et l'histoire du mouvement paysan. Il publie une revue, Problèmes agraires, en allemand et en russe. (HB 1936)
Publications
The organisation has no official publication. It publishes its material and appeals in the "Farmers' and Peasants' International Communications" issued monthly in German, bi-monthly in French and once quarterly in English. (HB 1929)
L'Organisation n'a pas de publication officielle. Elle publie
sa documentation et ses appels dans l'organe Communications internationales des agriculteurs et des paysans qui paraît tous les mois en allemand, deux fois par mois en français et une fois par trimestre en anglais. (HB 1936)
Activities
Guidance of the affiliated organisations and peasant leaders; international conferences; publication of pamphlets and handbooks. (HB 1929)
Conseils aux organisations affiliées et aux chefs des groupements paysans; conférences internationales; publication de brochures et de manuels. (HB 1936)
Network