Among his most substantial speeches in front of the Communist International, Lenin opens the Second World Congress in Petrograd on July 19, 1920 with this survey of the world and role of the new International in the midst of the Civil War and during the revolutionary wave that swept much of Europe after World War One. ‘Report on the International Situation and the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International’ by V.I. Lenin from Proceedings of the The Second Congress of the Communist International, 1921. (An ovation breaks out. All present…