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Definition: Cominform from The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Communist Information Bureau was formed in 1947, with its headquarters in Belgrade. The organization was the successor of the Comintern, its mission also the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a global Communist state. The Cominterm was composed of nine European member Communist parties: the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy. In 1948, Yugoslavia was removed from the organization because Marshal Tito (1892-1980) refused to follow the dictates of the Russian leader Joseph Stalin. In 1956, the Cominform was dissolved by Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) as a sign of peace with the West and of making amends with Yugoslavia.

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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Organization 1947–56 established by Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948) to exchange information between European communist parties. The Cominform was a revival of the Communist International (see International, the ) or Comintern, which had been formally disbanded in 1943. Yugoslavia was expelled in 1948. The Cominform was formed by nine European communist parties (Soviet, Czechoslovak, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav, French, and Italian) which announced their decision to set up an ‘Information Bureau’ in Belgrade. The dissolution of the Comintern in 1943, dictated by its propagandist effect on Allied public opinion, was entirely to the advantage of the Soviet Union, for the central direction and control of all communist parties from a single source in Moscow remained unaltered. When World War II ended, communists tried to convert the National Liberation Fronts into National Front governments in which they could still retain the essential power, even if by…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Organization 1947–56 established by Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948) to exchange information between European communist parties. The Cominform was a revival of the Communist International (see International, the ) or Comintern, which had been formally disbanded in 1943. Yugoslavia was…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(kŏm'ĭnfôrm) [acronym for Communist Information Bureau], information agency organized in 1947 and dissolved in 1956. Its members were the Communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. The Cominform attempted to reestablish…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Agency of international communism founded under Soviet auspices in 1947. Its original members were the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy, but Yugoslavia was expelled in 1948. The Cominform’s activities consisted…
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
An organization founded by Stalin in 1947 as a successor to the Comintern , which had been established in 1943. Its purpose was the coordination of the propaganda and politics of the communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Yugoslavia. Its…
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Major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1991. It arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party . From 1918 through the 1980s it was a monolithic, monopolistic ruling party that dominated the Soviet Union’s political, …
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(Әndrā' Әlyĭksän'drӘvĭch zhdä'nôf), 1896–1948, Soviet Communist leader. A loyal supporter of Stalin , he was made (1934) secretary of the Leningrad Communist party and in 1939 became a full member of the politburo, the ruling body of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. As the party boss of…
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any of a succession of international socialist and Communist organizations of the 19th and 20th cent. The First International was founded in London in 1864 as the International Workingmen's Association. Karl Marx was a key figure in inspiring its creation and was later chosen as its leader. Its goal…
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