The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee direct ...

that oversaw the Party's relationships with foreign Communist Parties as well as with international

communist front A communist front is a political organization identified as a front organization under the effective control of a communist party, the Communist International or other communist organizations. They attracted politicized individuals who were not ...

organizations.

History

It inherited the files and some of the personnel of the

Communist International The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by ...

, which disbanded in 1943. The International Department was found in 1943 at roughly the same time as the Comintern's dissolution. The Party's relations with international front groups was managed by the Department's International Social Organizations Sector.

Leadership

*1943, 27 December – 1945, 29 December:

Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; bg, Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian ...

*1946, 13 April - 1949, 12 March: Mikhail Suslov *1949 - 1953: Vagan Grigorievich Grigoryan *1953-1954: Mikhail Suslov *1954-1955: Vasily Pavlovich Stepanov *1955-1986:

Boris Ponomarev Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Пономарёв) (17 January 1905 – 21 December 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist, historian and member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Sovie ...

(the first deputy director from 1938-1955, deputy director of the

Cominform The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (), commonly known as Cominform (), was a co-ordination body of Marxist-Leninist communist parties in Europe during the early Cold War that was formed in part as a replacement of the ...

from 1947-1948) Ebon, Martin ''The Soviet propaganda machine'' New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 pp.88-9 *1986-1988:

Anatoly Dobrynin Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Добры́нин, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than ...

*1988-1991:

Valentin Falin Valentin Mikhailovich Falin (russian: Baлeнтин Mиxaйлoвич Фaлин) (3 April 1926 – 22 February 2018) was a Soviet diplomat and politician. Early life Falin was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Inte ...

History

Leadership

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References

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