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Communist Information Bureau
The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (), commonly known as Cominform (), was a co-ordination body of Marxism-Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist party, communist parties in Europe which existed from 1947 to 1956. Formed in the wake of the dissolution of the Communist International in 1943, it did not replace that body, but instead mainly served as an expression of solidarity and as a means of disseminating Stalinism, Stalinist propaganda. The Cominform initially included the communist parties of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, Bulgarian Communist Party, Bulgaria, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, Hungarian Communist Party, Hungary, Polish Workers' Party, Poland, Romanian Communist Party, Romania, Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (expelled in 1948), French Communist Party, France, and Italian Communist Party, Italy. The organization was dissolved in 1956, during de-Stalinization. Overview Establishment and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the fourth Premier of the Soviet Union, premier from 1941 until his death. He initially governed as part of a Collective leadership in the Soviet Union, collective leadership, but Joseph Stalin's rise to power, consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, while the totalitarian political system he created is known as Stalinism. Born into a poor Georgian family in Gori, Georgia, Gori, Russian Empire, Stalin attended the Tiflis Theological Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He raised f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
