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“… The meeting is convened at the request of the governments of the USSR and Romania”. How the COMECON was created

Author(s): Leonid Ghibianski
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: COMECON; Romania; Soviet Union; I.V. Stalin; Eastern Europe;

Summary/Abstract: In this essay, a history of the COMECON establishment is traced on the basis of a considerable range of documents of the Soviet and East European communist regimes, including those from their former archives. The author is studying an organization machinery of the COMECON making, with an analysis of the USSR and the so-called people's Democracies interaction and role of each of them in this process. Much attention is given to clearing up and comparison of real and declarative COMECON nature and purposes.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2018
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 109-132
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Romanian