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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 was the Central committee, highest organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) between Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Congresses. Elected by the ...

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

communist front A communist front (or a mass organization in communist parlance) is a political organization identified as a front organization, allied with or under the effective control of a communist party, the Communist International or other communist organ ...

organizations.

History

It inherited the files and some of the personnel of the

Communist International The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was a political international which existed from 1919 to 1943 and advocated world communism. Emerging from the collapse of the Second Internationa ...

, which disbanded in 1943. The International Department was founded 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 (; ) also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 t ...

*1946, 13 April – 1949, 12 March:

Mikhail Suslov Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (; 25 January 1982) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Secretariat, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sovi ...

*1949 – 1953: Vagan Grigoryan *1953 – 1954:

*1954 – 1955: Vasily Stepanov *1955 – 1986:

Boris Ponomarev Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (; 17 January 1905 – 21 December 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist, historian and member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His patron in his rise to the Politburo was Mikhail ...

(the first deputy director from 1938 to 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 which existed from 1947 to 1956. Formed in the wake of the dissolution ...

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

Anatoly Dobrynin Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician, statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Ambassador of Russia to the United States, Soviet ambassador to the United States for more ...

*1988 – 1991:

Valentin Falin Valentin Mikhailovich Falin (; 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 International Relations in 1950. Career From 1951 t ...

References

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Foreign relations of the Soviet Union Organizations established in 1943 1943 establishments in the Soviet Union {{soviet-stub

History

Leadership

See also

References