The Zhdanov Doctrine and the Cominform
The Zhdanov Doctrine
Der Shdanow Bericht (22. September 1947)
TextIn einem bei der Informationsberatung der kommunistischen Parteien in Szklarska Poreba, Polen, vorgetragenen Bericht am 22. September 1947 kritisiert Andrej Shdanov, dritter Sekretär der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion (KPdSU), heftig die amerikanische Politik. Bei dieser Informationsberatung treffen sich die Vertreter der kommunistischen Parteien aus der Sowjetunion, Bulgarien, Frankreich, Ungarn, Italien, Polen, Rumänien, Tschechoslowakei und Jugoslawien.
Statement on international problems (September 1947)
TextIn September 1947, a briefing conference of the Soviet, Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Yugoslav Communist Parties is held in Szklarska Poreba, Poland. During this conference, a statement is issued criticising US and Western imperialism.
"Die neue Internationale" in Le Monde (7. Oktober 1947)
TextAm 7. Oktober 1947 zählt die französische Tageszeitung Le Monde die politischen Ziele der neuen kommunistischen Internationale auf und unterstreicht die Vorherrschaft der Sowjetunion in dieser neuen Organisation.
Cartoon by Gacq on the Soviet Union's attitude towards Europe (15 February 1948)
BildOn 15 February 1948, in the Brussels weekly newspaper Le Phare Dimanche, the cartoonist Gacq attacks the protective attitude feigned by the Soviet Union towards Europe, a continent that is being bled dry.
The Cominform
Cartoon on the dangers of Soviet expansionism in Europe (10 October 1947)
Bild‘Comintern: It’s spinning a new web over Europe.’ On 10 October 1947, the daily newspaper Hannover Presse portrays the difficult position of Western Europe threatened by the spread of Communist ideology.
‘Cominform? Comintern?’ from the Luxemburger Wort (14 October 1947)
TextOn 14 October 1947, the daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort speculates on the aims of Cominform, the Belgrade-based organisation for the ideological coordination of the communist movement, set up by delegates from the communist parties of the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy and France.
Communist Information Bureau Resolutions (November 1949)
TextIn November 1949, the Communist Information Bureau publishes a series of resolutions that criticise the imperialist policy of the United States and its Western Allies, and calls for all workers to unite to fight against the dangers of imperialism and capitalism.