International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union explained

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

It 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

• 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

• Departments of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

See also

• International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. [Martin Ebon|Ebon, Martin]
3. 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
4. [Martin Ebon|Ebon, Martin]
5. [Martin Ebon|Ebon, Martin]