STRATEGIE KOMINTERNY PO JEJÍM ROZPUŠTĚNÍ A SOVĚTSKÉ PLÁNOVÁNÍ POVÁLEČNÉHO SVĚTA
THE COMINTERN STRATEGIES AFTER ITS DISSOLUTION AND SOVIET GLOBAL POST-WAR PLANS

Summary/Abstract: The study raises a seemingly absurd question about the strategy of the Comintern after its dissolution in May 1943. Its agenda was continuously taken over by the Department of International Information of the Central Committee within the Soviet Communist Party. Soviet intentions at the very end of the WWII have been subject to many discussions. The study briefly analyses positional documents that were drafted in special expert committees of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and that were planned for the future peace talks. From the fact that they do not contain plans for sovietisation of the territories occupied by the Red Army cannot be inferred that the Soviet government focused exclusively on ensuring Soviet security interests. The political line enforced in the liberated countries was created on the party level, by the will of the Kremlin leaders. And, although there is no evidence that Stalin had some kind of a master plan of communisation of the Central and Eastern Europe, the steps he made from the very early phase directed course of events precisely in this way. The idea of a global socialist revolution was never turned down, only its form and time changed due to the new international context. Immediately after the Red Army arrived, the foundations of the „people’s democracy“ were being laid in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Department of International Information played a role of an actual controller over the communist parties and a coordinator of their political moves.

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