โคมินฟอร์ม

Also known as Communist Information Bureau, Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties

The '''Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (), commonly known as Cominform''' (), was a co-ordination body of Marxist–Leninist communist parties in Europe which existed from 1947 to 1956. Formed in the wake of the dissolution of the Communist International in 1943, it did not replace that body, but instead mainly served as an expression of solidarity and as a means of disseminating Stalinist propaganda. The Cominform initially included the communist parties of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia (expelled in 1948), France, and I