Cominform and Comecon
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- Created on: 12-02-21 07:00
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- Cominform and Comecon
- Cominform, 1947-1956
- Communist Information Bureau
- propaganda to prevent communist countries being lured away by US's dollar diplomacy
- Tried to keep France and Italy onside but failed
- Yugoslavia was the most enthusiastic participant until the rift between Tito and Stalin
- Yugoslavia was expelled in 1948
- Comecon, 1949-1990s
- Council of Mutual Economic Assisstance
- Initial members were the eastern Bloc countries
- later, Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam joined
- No regional cooperation - relations between members and the USSR
- Countries provided an outlet for Soviet manufacturer and a supply of raw goods
- socialist economic planning was applied - the theory was that each country would specialize so they didn't have to rely on imports from outside the bloc
- Significance of Cominform and Comecon
- Marshall aid would have required trade with the west which would have impacted Soviet control
- Cominform emphasised Soviet control of information, which made the West see the east as a solid bloc of communism to oppose
- Comecon helped divide Europe into two competing economic blocs
- These policies were a reaction to the USA - it was also used to justify the communist takeover of Czech-, tightening control of E. Europe, and the Berlin Blockade
- Cominform, 1947-1956
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