ПОДГОТОВКА СОЗДАНИЯКОМИНФОРМА И ПРОБЛЕМЯ „СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧЕСКОГО ЛАГЕРЯ
PREPARATIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE COMINFORM AND PROBLEMS IN THE »SOCIALIST CAMP«

Summary/Abstract: An analysis of previously inaccessible Soviet archives and the archives of former socialist East European countries reveals the history of preparations preceding the founding of the Cominform, whose primary aim was to strengthen the Soviet-dominated "socialist camp" recently established. Although Stalin had’ since the spring of 1946, occasionally considered the idea of forming the Information Bureau (Cominform) with the leaders of some countries from the "socialist camp", he did not allow any initiative on their part. In June 1947 the leader of the Polish communists Gromulka received instructions from the Kremlin to begin making preparations for a conference of the nine communist parties. Neither he nor any of the other participants, however, were told that the meeting would be used as a founding session for the Cominform. This was disclosed to them only when the meeting was already under way. The study of Soviet archives has revealed the Soviet plans preceding the conference and their strategy in carrying them out, and provides insight into the relations between Moscow and the communist parties of the countries belonging to the Soviet bloc, as well as the reaction of the latter to the conference and to the formation of the Cominform.

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