Stalin’s Foreign Policy and the Cominform, 1947–53
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Archive sources recently made accessible have enabled scholars to study more closely the Soviet Union’s use of the Cominform to consolidate the Eastern bloc and complete the ‘Sovietization’ of the people’s democracies.1 It has become clear, however, that in initiating the Cominform the Soviet leaders pursued aims that reached beyond those limits. An American historian who has worked in our archives uses the concept ‘dualism’ in relation to the working of the new ‘centre for coordination’.2 In this chapter I continue my investigation3 of the relation between the ‘state’ and ‘party’ diplomacy of the Soviet leadership and their mutual influence.
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Foreign Policy Eastern Bloc International Situation Marshall Plan Peace Movement
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