Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Courting Disaster? The Communist International in the Third Period -- Storm over Asia: Comintern Colonial Policy in the Third Period -- Presenting a Crisis as an Opportunity: The KPD and the Third Period, 1929-1933 -- To the Left and Back Again: The Communist Party of Great Britain in the Third Period -- The Italian Communist Party and the Third Period -- French Communism, The Comintern and Class Against Class: Interpretations and Rationales -- Wreckage or Recovery: A Tale of Two Parties -- The Portugese Communist Party, Its Ancillary Organisations, and the Communist International's Third Period -- The 'Good Bolsheviks': The Spanish Communists and the Third Period -- A Final Stab at Insurrection: The American Communist Party, 1928-34 -- Red or Yellow? Canadian Communists and the 'Long' Third Period, 1927-36 -- The New Line in the Antipodes: Australian Communists and Class against Class -- The Communist Party of New Zealand and the Third Period, 1928-35 -- The Chinese Communist Party During the Third Period, 1927-34 -- Blowing Up India: The Comintern and India, 1928-35 -- The New Line in South Africa: Ideology and Perception in a Very Small Communist Party -- Moscow in the Tropics: The Third Period, Brazilian Style -- Index.