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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Cominform | | | |  Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comintern - Origins of the Communist InternationalThe origins of the Communist International are to be found in the split in the workers' movement that surfaced in 1914 with the beginning of the First World War, although divisions between revolutionary and reformist minded elements had been developing for some considerable time. For example, as far back as 1899, reformist or right wing elements in the socialist movement had supported the entry of French socialist Millerand into the government of the day. On the other hand, revolutionary or left wing elements were fiercely opposed to this de ...
See also:Comintern, Comintern - Origins of the Communist International, Comintern - The First Four World Congresses of the Communist International, Comintern - From the Fifth to the Seventh World Congress, Comintern - From the Last Congress to Dissolution, Comintern - Alleged Independence, Comintern - After the Comintern Read more here: » Comintern: Encyclopedia II - Comintern - Origins of the Communist International |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Nikita Khrushchev - Early days Nikita Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Guberniya, Russian Empire (now Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation). In 1908, his family moved to what is now Donetsk, Ukraine. Although he was apparently highly intelligent, he only received approximately two years of education as a child and probably only became fully literate in his late twenties or early thirties.
He was trained for and worked as a joiner in various factories and mines. During World War I, Khrushchev became involved in trade union ac ...
See also:Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev - Early days, Nikita Khrushchev - Great Patriotic War, Nikita Khrushchev - Rise to power, Nikita Khrushchev - Khrushchev's personality, Nikita Khrushchev - Forced retirement, Nikita Khrushchev - Key political actions, Nikita Khrushchev - Key economic actions, Nikita Khrushchev - Legacy, Nikita Khrushchev - Other, Nikita Khrushchev - Books Read more here: » Nikita Khrushchev: Encyclopedia II - Nikita Khrushchev - Early days |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - History of Communist Albania - Albanian-Yugoslav tensions Until Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, Albania acted like a Yugoslav satellite and Tito aimed to use his choke hold on the Albanian party to incorporate the entire country into Yugoslavia. After Germany's withdrawal from Kosovo in late 1944, Yugoslavia's communist partisans took possession of the province and committed retaliatory massacres against Albanians. Before World War II, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had supported transferring Kosovo to Albania, but Yugoslavia's postwar communist regime insisted on preserving t ...
See also:History of Communist Albania, History of Communist Albania - Consolidation of power and initial reforms, History of Communist Albania - Albanian-Yugoslav tensions, History of Communist Albania - Deteriorating relations with the west, History of Communist Albania - Albania and the Soviet Union, History of Communist Albania - Albania and China, History of Communist Albania - The cultural and ideological revolution, History of Communist Albania - The break with China and self-reliance, History of Communist Albania - Transition to democracy, History of Communist Albania - Reference Read more here: » History of Communist Albania: Encyclopedia II - History of Communist Albania - Albanian-Yugoslav tensions |
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| | | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - 1948 - Events
1948 - January-February.
January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution.
January 4 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
January 17 - Truce between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java
January ...
See also:1948, 1948 - Events, 1948 - January-February, 1948 - March-April, 1948 - May, 1948 - June-July, 1948 - August-December, 1948 - Undated, 1948 - Unknown date, 1948 - Births, 1948 - January-February, 1948 - March-April, 1948 - May-July, 1948 - August-December, 1948 - Unknown date, 1948 - Deaths, 1948 - Nobel Prizes Read more here: » 1948: Encyclopedia II - 1948 - Events |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Communism - The growth of modern Communism
Communism - Soviet Marxism.
In Russia, the 1917 October Revolution was the first time any party with an avowedly Marxist orientation, in this case the Bolshevik Party, obtained state power. The assumption of state power by the Bolsheviks generated a great deal of practical and theoretical debate within the Marxist movement. Marx believed that socialism and communism would be built upon foundations laid by the most advanced capitalist development. Russia, however, was one of the poorest countries in Europe with an ...
See also:Communism, Communism - Early Communism, Communism - Marxism, Communism - The growth of modern Communism, Communism - Soviet Marxism, Communism - Cold War years, Communism - Maoism, Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism - Criticism of communism, Communism - Comparing Communism to communism, Communism - Schools of communism, Communism - Organizations and people Read more here: » Communism: Encyclopedia II - Communism - The growth of modern Communism |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Communism - Cold War years As the Soviet Union won important allies by victory in the Second World War in Eastern Europe, communism as a movement spread to a number of new countries, and gave rise to a few different branches of its own, such as Maoism.
Communism had been vastly strengthened by the winning of many new nations into the sphere of Soviet influence and strength in Eastern Europe. Governments modeled on Soviet Communism took power with Soviet assistance in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania. A Communist government was ...
See also:Communism, Communism - Early Communism, Communism - Marxism, Communism - The growth of modern Communism, Communism - Soviet Marxism, Communism - Cold War years, Communism - Maoism, Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism - Criticism of communism, Communism - Comparing Communism to communism, Communism - Schools of communism, Communism - Organizations and people Read more here: » Communism: Encyclopedia II - Communism - Cold War years |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Josip Broz Tito - World War II In April 1941, the Communists were among the first to organize a resistance movement. On April 10th, the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia met in Zagreb and decided to start the resistance, naming Tito the chief of the military committee. On June 22, a group of 49 local men attacked a German supply train near Sisak thus beginning the first anti-fascist uprising in occupied Yugoslavia. On July 4, Tito issued a public call for armed resistance against the Nazi/Fascist occupation, as the supreme commander of the People's Liberation ...
See also:Josip Broz Tito, Josip Broz Tito - Early years, Josip Broz Tito - Origin of the name Tito, Josip Broz Tito - World War II, Josip Broz Tito - Post-war, Josip Broz Tito - Aftermath, Josip Broz Tito - Personal Read more here: » Josip Broz Tito: Encyclopedia II - Josip Broz Tito - World War II |
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| | | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union and relaxed central control, in accordance with reform policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). The Soviet Union did not intervene as Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary all abandoned Communist rule by 1990. In 1991, the Soviet Union itself dissolved.
By the beginning of the 21st century, states under control by Communist parties under a single-party system include the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Laos, North Kore ...
See also:Communism, Communism - Early Communism, Communism - Marxism, Communism - The growth of modern Communism, Communism - Soviet Marxism, Communism - Cold War years, Communism - Maoism, Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism - Criticism of communism, Communism - Comparing Communism to communism, Communism - Schools of communism, Communism - Organizations and people Read more here: » Communism: Encyclopedia II - Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union |
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| | | | | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Structure Main article: Structure of the Comecon
The official hierarchy of Comecon consisted of the Session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the Executive Committee of the Council, the Secretariat of the Council, four council committees, twenty-four standing commissions, six interstate conferences, two scientific institutes, and several associated organizations.
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See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Structure |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Membership In the late 1950s, a number of other communist-ruled countries--China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Mongolia, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia--were invited to participate as observers in Comecon sessions. Although Mongolia and Vietnam later gained full membership, China stopped attending Comecon sessions after 1961. Yugoslavia negotiated a form of associate status in the organization, specified in its 1964 agreement with Comecon.
In the late 1980s there were ten full members: the Soviet Union, six East European cou ...
See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Membership |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - History Main article: History of the Comecon
The Comecon was founded in 1949 by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Joseph Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the small states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan were the primary factors in Comecon's formation.
Until the late 1960s, cooperation was the official term used to describe Comecon activities. In 1971, with the development and adoption of the Comprehensive Program for the ...
See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - History |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Nature of Operation Comecon was an interstate organization through which members attempted to coordinate economic activities of mutual interest and to develop multilateral economic, scientific, and technical cooperation:
The Charter stated that "the sovereign equality of all members" was fundamental to the organization and procedures of Comecon.
The Comprehensive Program further emphasized that the processes of integration of members' economies were "completely voluntary and do not involve the creation of supranational bodies." Hence under ...
See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Nature of Operation |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community Although Comecon was loosely referred to as the "European Economic Community (EEC) of Eastern Europe," important contrasts existed between the two organizations. Both organizations administered economic integration; however, their economic structure, size, balance, and influence differed:
In the 1980s, the EEC incorporated the 270 million people of Western Europe into economic association through intergovernmental agreements aimed at maximizing profits and economic efficiency on a national and international scale. It was a regi ...
See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - History of Communist Albania - Consolidation of power and initial reforms A collection of communists moved quickly after World War II to subdue all potential political enemies in Albania, break the country's landowners and minuscule middle class, and isolate Albania from the noncommunist world in order to establish the People's Republic of Albania. By early 1945, the communists had liquidated, discredited, or driven into exile most of the country's interwar elite. The internal affairs minister, Koçi Xoxe, a pro-Yugoslav erstwhile tinsmith, presided over the trial and the execution of thousands of opposition polit ...
See also:History of Communist Albania, History of Communist Albania - Consolidation of power and initial reforms, History of Communist Albania - Albanian-Yugoslav tensions, History of Communist Albania - Deteriorating relations with the west, History of Communist Albania - Albania and the Soviet Union, History of Communist Albania - Albania and China, History of Communist Albania - The cultural and ideological revolution, History of Communist Albania - The break with China and self-reliance, History of Communist Albania - Transition to democracy, History of Communist Albania - Reference Read more here: » History of Communist Albania: Encyclopedia II - History of Communist Albania - Consolidation of power and initial reforms |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - International relations within the Comecon See: International relations within the Comecon
Soviet domination of Comecon was a function of its economic, political, and military power. The Soviet Union possessed 90 percent of Comecon members' land and energy resources, 70 percent of their population, 65 percent of their national income, and industrial and military capacities second in the world only to those of the United States. The location of many Comecon committee headquarters in Moscow and the large number of Soviet nationals in positions of authority al ...
See also:Comecon, Comecon - Names in languages of the member states, Comecon - Characteristics, Comecon - History, Comecon - Membership, Comecon - Structure, Comecon - Nature of Operation, Comecon - Comecon Versus the European Economic Community, Comecon - Prices Exchange Rates Coordination of national plans, Comecon - International relations within the Comecon Read more here: » Comecon: Encyclopedia II - Comecon - International relations within the Comecon |
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| | | | | Cominform: Encyclopedia II - Comintern - After the Comintern In 1947 the Cominform, or Communist Information Bureau, was created as a substitute of the Comintern. It was a network made up of the Communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. It was dissolved in 1956.
While the pro-Moscow Communist parties of the world no longer had a formal international organisation, they still looked to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or CPSU, for leadership, and had periodic meetings in Moscow. The most notable ...
See also:Comintern, Comintern - Origins of the Communist International, Comintern - The First Four World Congresses of the Communist International, Comintern - From the Fifth to the Seventh World Congress, Comintern - From the Last Congress to Dissolution, Comintern - Alleged Independence, Comintern - After the Comintern Read more here: » Comintern: Encyclopedia II - Comintern - After the Comintern |
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