In 1947, Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896–1948), an ideologist in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Stalin’s right-hand man, set up the Cominform, an information bureau and coordinating body for the communist parties in Europe. He developed a doctrine which stated that the world was divided into two irreconcilable camps: an ‘imperialist and anti-democratic’ camp led by the United States and an ‘anti-imperialist and democratic’ camp led by the USSR. The Zhdanov Doctrine was the Soviet response to the Truman Doctrine.