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==Impact on communist parties outside the USSR== In the West, the [[crisis of capitalism]] was coming to a head with the beginning of the [[Great Depression]] in 1929, and the [[Communist International]]'s Sixth Congress viewed capitalism as entering a final death agony, its "third period of existence" where the first had been capitalism during its rise prior to [[World War I]], and the second was the short period after the crushing of the post-World War I [[revolution]]s when capitalism seemed again to have stabilised. The formal institution of the Third Period occurred at the 9th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (E.C.C.I.) in February 1928. This helped in dovetailing the "Left" of the All-Union Communist party with that of the Comintern itself. To the Comintern, a decisive and final [[revolution]]ary upheaval was afoot and all its sections had to prepare for the immediate advent of [[world revolution]]. As part of this theory, because the Comintern felt that conditions were strong enough, it demanded that its political positions within the workers' movement be consolidated and that all "[[reactionary]]" elements be purged. Accordingly, attacks and expulsions were launched against [[social democrats]] and moderate [[socialists]] within [[labour union]]s where the local CP had majority support, as well as [[Trotskyists]] and [[united front]] proponents. The All-Union Communist Party also encouraged armed rebellion in [[China]], [[Spartacist League|Germany]], and elsewhere.{{Citation needed|date=March 2007}} Although shortcomings and crippling ideological vacillations brought this Period to an end, the tone of the "Third Period" resonated powerfully with the mood of many militant workers of the time, especially following the [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Stock Market Crash of 1929]] and the ensuing crises of the 1930s. In many countries, [[Communist Party USA|including the United States]], local Communist Parties' membership and influence grew as a result of the "Third Period" policies.<ref>This section is adopted in part from a public domain article by David Walters for the [http://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/t/h.htm#third-period Marxists Internet Archive]'s Encyclopedia of Marxism.</ref>
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