Victor Jeifets

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at St Petersburg University

In the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean have become one of the key regions for Russia to expand its influence and strengthen the ‘multipolar’ world. This Kremlin policy is not a simple reproduction of the Soviet model and contains several new features. However, after the strong blow to the existing world order by the use of Russian mil...

This chapter analyzes the complex relations among the Communist International, its national section in Mexico, and the Nicaraguan anti-imperialist movement that Augusto César Sandino led, in order to inquire into the causes of its creation and the breakdown of their alliance. Practically unknown Comintern documents housed in Moscow, as well as Sand...

The purpose of this article is to find out the evolution of the relations between the Executive Committee of the III International and Latin American sections, first of all in the context of discussions over various aspects of development of revolutionary movement. Being Latin America a kind of laboratory of World Revolution, its Communist movement...

This review article has resulted from the discussion during the roundtable of the editors-in-chief of the international relations (IR) journals, convened by Saint Petersburg State University as part of the Congress of the IR students (November, 2022). As a result of the discussion, the participants agreed that Russian journals have passed a serious...

The article analyzes the evolution of complicated relations between the Communist Party of Venezuela and the Communist Party of Cuba in the 60s and 70s of XX century. Both Communist Parties originally were very close and had aided to each other during both the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions of 1958-1959. After the triumph of Castroist forces in C...

The article, written on the basis of previously unpublished archival documents, memoirs, compared with scientific literature, examines the biography of the outstanding Venezuelan economist and politician Jose Antonio Mayobre. His life was filled with bright events: participation in the activities of the Communist Party of Venezuela, the work in suc...

The article examines the little–studied nature of relations between the III International, its Caribbean Bureau and the Communist Party of Cuba in connection with the so-called "August mistake" - the attitude taken by the Cuban section of the Comintern during the anti-Machado revolution of 1933. The role of the informal leader of the party Ruben Ma...

The article examines the interaction and conflicts between the Government of Mexico (represented by President L. Cardenas), the Communist Party, business and social groups and various factions of the labor movement. The analysis is carried out in the context of the influence of the Communist International on its Mexican section. The author shows th...

En este artículo se analiza el trabajo político del suizo Edgar Woog, alias Aldred Stirner, en el movimiento comunista mexicano, como principal emisario de la Comintern durante la década de 1920. A través de un amplio soporte documental de fuentes inéditas, provenientes del Archivo Estatal de Ruso de Historia Social y Política, y otras poco conocid...

The evolution of regionalism in Latin America has historically been greatly influenced by changes in governments and their ideological programs. In this article, looking at the courses of the administrations of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Ivan Duque in Colombia, Sebastian Piñera (second term, 2018-2022) in Chile, Mario Abdo Benítez in Paraguay, it is...

El propósito de la publicación es identificar la evolución y características específicas de la cooperación entre Paraguay y Rusia, en el siglo XXI. En el estudio, se aplican los métodos científicos generales, descripción histórica y comparación, análisis estructural y sistémico que permiten examinar a fondo el desarrollo del diálogo paraguayo-ruso,...

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Mexico suspended its relations with Soviet Russia, although there was no public announcement of the rupture of diplomatic relations. However, in just seven years, in 1924, Mexico became the first Latin American nation to recognize the USSR officially and exchange ambassadors (Jeifets, 2006, Beltrán, 2015). Ye...

Introduction. The article examines the Comintern “trace” in the formation of modern “Bolivarian socialism”, proclaimed by the leaders of Venezuela at the beginning of the 21st century. Communist postulates (in the Comintern perception) were, certainly, not the only source of the formation of the ideology of the ruling Socialist United Party of Vene...

The article deals with the analysis of the evolution of the relationship between the left movement and the Mexican Communist Party in the context of the policy of the Comintern and the domestic policy implemented by Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas. The author focused on the relationship between the CPM and the Confederation of Workers of Mexico,...

This article is devoted to the role played by the Soviet diplomats in the development of the Mexican Left-Wing Movement. The research is based on some archive materials, and the author demonstrates various important aspects of participation of the Soviet Envoys in different episodes of activities by the Communist Party of Mexico and other structure...

This article deals with the evolution and peculiarities of the policy of Mexican communists who were forced to operate underground after the beginning of the "left turn" in the late 1920s. During this period, the CPM actually abandoned its own interpretation of the problems of the revolution in its country, being satisfied with the policies and ass...

The paper examines the foreign policy of Mexico during the first years of President A. M. López Obrador (AMLO) administration (2018‒2020). The research aims to both identify the key priorities of the country’s foreign policy (i.e., relations with the United States and Latin American countries, particularly in the context of the Venezuelan and Bolivi...

In 2020, during his state visit to Latin America and the Caribbean, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo underlined the importance of keeping the People’s Republic of China out of the LAC region, which is (still) regarded as the US’s “strategic backyard”. Earlier already, US politicians had stressed the need for close cooperation between the US and th...

The article analyzes the evolution of various forms of international cooperation between Latin American Communist Parties and the ways of their interaction with Moscow after the dissolution of the Comintern. The search for an optimal model of interaction was often carried out on the initiative of the Communist Parties themselves and led to the form...

The article contains an outline of evolution of so-called Russian return into Latin America. The author tries to analyze how Russian foreign policy towards the Latin American and Caribbean region over the last three decades pointing some its key features and trying to define existing obstacles for its implementation, and to make some conclusions ab...

This chapter highlights the main dynamics shaping Russia’s policy towards aspiring political movements and unrecognized states. Moscow’s attitude towards these actors has been traditionally determined by its foreign policy paradigm which favours establishing official links only with sovereign and recognized states. This attitude was quite noticeabl...

This article analyzes the recent evolution of Brazilian-Russian relations, with an emphasis on their interaction within the BRICS group. The authors claim that beyond the changes and un- certainties in global world order throughout the second decade of the 21st century, the evolution of Brazilian foreign policy, following the internal political con...

Relation between oil trade and political regimes, climate change and problems of managing natural resources, mining technologies and fighting corruption and many others constitute the phenomenon of a multicomponent energy policy, the study of which is located at the intersection of natural and social sciences. Latin American region has large hydroc...

This article addresses how U.S. public diplomacy, in educational, cultural, and media-focused projects, has influenced the development of Venezuela’s civil society and democracy during three eras. First, during the Cold War, to contain communism, U.S. public diplomacy prioritized educational projects targeting Venezuela’s military and youth. As mil...

The present article takes as the target to investigate the opening of the borders of the USSR to the world with the intention of expanding the Communist ideas, of teaching the positive experience in the way of construction of the socialism, of attracting the support of the foreign trade unions and intellectuals that were sympathizing to the cause o...

The article analyzes, above all, the first stage of relations between the PC of Paraguay and the Communist International (Comintern), when the PCP suffered the internal crisis and change of leader as a consequence of the direct interference of the South American Secretariat of the Comintern. The text also contains an outline of contacts maintained...

The phenomenon of Latin American integration has a long history. Throughout decades, a number of international organizations, regional and subregional blocs have formed in the region in order to unite interstate efforts aimed at fostering economic growth. The "pink tide" led to the emergence of several new integration projects that develop both pol...