Cominform

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Cominform was a Soviet-dominated international communist organization (1947–1956) that coordinated the policies and activities of various European communist parties during the early Cold War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War organization
international communist organization
political organization
activity ideological coordination
policy guidance to member parties
propaganda
continent Europe
countryDominating Soviet Union
dissolutionReason de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union
shift in Soviet foreign policy
dissolved 1956
excludedOrganization Communist Party of Yugoslavia
expelledCountry Yugoslavia
expulsionReason Tito–Stalin split
expulsionYear 1948
followedBy informal Soviet bilateral control over communist parties
foundedBy Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
fullName Cominform self-linksurface differs
surface form: Communist Information Bureau
headquartersLocation Belgrade
Bucharest
headquartersMovedFrom Belgrade
headquartersMovedTo Bucharest
ideology Marxism–Leninism
Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism
inception 1947
languageUsed French
Russian
other European languages
memberOrganization Bulgarian Communist Party
Czechoslovak Communist Party
surface form: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of France
surface form: French Communist Party

Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
surface form: Hungarian Working People's Party

Italian Communist Party
Polish United Workers' Party
Romanian Communist Party
surface form: Romanian Workers' Party
operatingPeriod early Cold War
opposed Marshall Plan
NATO
United States foreign policy
politicalPosition far-left
precededBy Comintern
publication For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy!
purpose coordinate policies of European communist parties
oppose Western influence in Europe
propagate Soviet interpretations of Marxism–Leninism
strengthen Soviet control over foreign communist parties
regionServed Europe
replaced Communist International (Comintern) in a limited way
shortName Cominform self-link

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Socialist Unity Party of Germany internationalAffiliation Cominform
this entity surface form: Cominform (historically aligned)
Comintern succeededBy Cominform
Cominform fullName Cominform self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Communist Information Bureau
Cominform shortName Cominform self-link
SED memberOf Cominform
PCR internationalAffiliation Cominform
subject surface form: Romanian Communist Party
PCR internationalAffiliation Cominform
subject surface form: Romanian Communist Party
this entity surface form: World Communist Movement
BCP affiliation Cominform
subject surface form: Bulgarian Communist Party
Third International successor Cominform
PCF historicalAffiliation Cominform
League of Communists of Yugoslavia internationalAffiliation Cominform
this entity surface form: Cominform (until 1948)