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International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that oversaw the Party's relationships with foreign Communist Parties as well as with international communist front organizations.[1]

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History
It inherited the files and some of the personnel of the Communist International, which disbanded in 1943.[2] The International Department was founded in 1943 at roughly the same time as the Comintern's dissolution.[3]
The Party's relations with international front groups was managed by the Department's International Social Organizations Sector.[4]
Leadership
- 1943, 27 December – 1945, 29 December: Georgi Dimitrov
- 1946, 13 April – 1949, 12 March: Mikhail Suslov
- 1949 – 1953: Vagan Grigoryan
- 1953 – 1954: Mikhail Suslov
- 1954 – 1955: Vasily Stepanov
- 1955 – 1986: Boris Ponomarev (the first deputy director from 1938 to 1955, deputy director of the Cominform from 1947 to 1948)[5]
- 1986 – 1988: Anatoly Dobrynin
- 1988 – 1991: Valentin Falin
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References
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