Stalin re-established the Comintern as which organization?

Stalin re-established the Comintern as which organization?

• A. Cominform
• B. Comintern
• C. COMECON
• D. Soviet Information Bureau

Answer: (B)

The event tests your understanding of how Stalin reorganized international Communist structures after World War II to tighten Moscow’s control. He reconstituted the international Communist network under a new banner, the Communist Information Bureau, commonly known as Cominform, established in 1947. This body was designed to coordinate and align the activities and political lines of Communist parties across the Soviet bloc, ensuring obedience to Moscow and presenting a unified front in the early Cold War. This is distinct from the original Comintern, which had been dissolved earlier in the war and was not merely revived under a new name. It’s also different from COMECON, which focused on economic coordination rather than political alignment, and from the Soviet Information Bureau, which served wartime propaganda needs rather than postwar party coordination.

The event tests your understanding of how Stalin reorganized international Communist structures after World War II to tighten Moscow’s control. He reconstituted the international Communist network under a new banner, the Communist Information Bureau, commonly known as Cominform, established in 1947. This body was designed to coordinate and align the activities and political lines of Communist parties across the Soviet bloc, ensuring obedience to Moscow and presenting a unified front in the early Cold War.

This is distinct from the original Comintern, which had been dissolved earlier in the war and was not merely revived under a new name. It’s also different from COMECON, which focused on economic coordination rather than political alignment, and from the Soviet Information Bureau, which served wartime propaganda needs rather than postwar party coordination.