Cominform - Member Parties

An abbreviation for the former USSR's Communist Information Bureau, and a successor to the Comintern. It was established upon Stalin's orders at a meeting in Poland (Sep 1947), its purpose being the co-ordination of the ‘voice’ and activities of the communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and Yugoslavia. Its headquarters were moved from Belgrade to Bucharest following the break between Stalin and Tito which culminated in Yugoslavia's expulsion in 1948. Cominform reflected a new hard line, expressing hostility towards the capitalist camp of the world, and was used by Stalin as an instrument for Soviet domination of E Europe. After the rapprochement of the USSR and Yugoslavia in 1956, the Cominform was dissolved.

The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what was officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties. It was the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, and confirmed the new realities after World War II - including the creation of an Eastern Bloc.

The Cominform was a Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties founded in September, 1947 at a conference of Communist party leaders in Szklarska Poręba, Poland.

The intended purpose of the Cominform was to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction. It had its own newspaper (titled For Lasting Peace, for People's Democracy!), and it encouraged unity of Communist parties under Soviet direction.

Member Parties

Bulgarian Communist Party Communist Party of Czechoslovakia French Communist Party Hungarian Workers Party Communist Party of Italy Polish United Workers' Party Romanian Workers' Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of Yugoslavia (until its expulsion in June of 1948)