International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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 that oversaw the Party's relationships with foreign Communist Parties as well as with international communist front organizations.[1]
History
editIt inherited the files and some of the personnel of the Communist International, which disbanded in 1943.[2] The International Department was found in 1943 at roughly the same time as the Comintern's dissolution.[3]
The Party's relations with international front groups was managed by the Department's International Social Organizations Sector.[4]
Leadership
edit- 1943, 27 December – 1945, 29 December: Georgi Dimitrov
- 1946, 13 April – 1949, 12 March: Mikhail Suslov
- 1949 – 1953: Vagan Grigoryan
- 1953 – 1954: Mikhail Suslov
- 1954 – 1955: Vasily Stepanov
- 1955 – 1986: Boris Ponomarev (the first deputy director from 1938 to 1955, deputy director of the Cominform from 1947 to 1948)[5]
- 1986 – 1988: Anatoly Dobrynin
- 1988 – 1991: Valentin Falin
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Schapiro, Leonard. "The International Department of the CPSU: Key to Soviet Policy." International Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 1976, pp. 41–55. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40542145.
- ^ Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 p.88
- ^ Mark Kramer, The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Relations and National Security Policy, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1990), pp. 429-446
- ^ Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 p.89
- ^ Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 pp.88-9
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