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Rolul Cominformului în politica externă sovietică
The Cominform’s Role in the Soviet Foreign Policy

Author(s): Cosmin Popa
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Cominform; Soviet Union; foreign policy; communism;

Summary/Abstract: Next to the signing of mutual friendship and assistance treaties, both between the countries of Central and Southeastern Europe and between them and the USSR, setting up the Information Bureau of Communist parties (Cominform) was part of the Soviet strategy designed to help create an interstate zonal system likely to secure and guarantee the dependence of the states and parties targeted by Moscow in general and Stalin in particular. This study is intended to analyze the activity of the Information Bureau, in the context of the strategic changes occurring in the Soviet foreign policy in 1946-1947 and of the initiatives of the Soviet leaders who pursued to create a new body to coordinate the Communist parties.

  • Issue Year: IX/2001
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 59-78
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian