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International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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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]

Former building of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU at 8 Old Square, previously the "Boyarsky Dvor" hotel, now the seat of the Presidential Administration of Russia

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

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References

  1. [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. [2]
    Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 p.88
  3. [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. [4]
    Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 p.89
  5. [5]
    Ebon, Martin The Soviet propaganda machine New York : McGraw-Hill, 1987 pp.88-9

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