The book by K. Mackenzie is one of the fundamental studies devoted to the activities of the Comintern and the special role of the Soviet Union in the struggle for world revolution. It tells about the stages of building a world international of communists, about the development of strategies and tactics for seizing world domination and transforming society in accordance with their ideology. The author devotes an important place to the relationship of the “model state” - the USSR with the communist parties of other countries and revolutionary movements. The work uses historical documents: transcripts, resolutions, theses, programs, manifestos and works of major theoreticians of communism.