Cominform

American  

[kom-in-fawrm] / ˈkɒm ɪnˌfɔrm /

noun

1. an organization (1947–56) established by the Communist parties of nine European countries for mutual advice and coordinated activity.

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Cominform British  

/ ˈkɒmɪnˌfɔːm /

noun

1. short for Communist Information Bureau : established 1947 to exchange information among nine European Communist parties and coordinate their activities; dissolved in 1956

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Other Word Forms

• Cominformist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Cominform

Com(munist) Inform(ation Bureau)

Example Sentences

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Cominform

Yugoslavia was a communist state from the beginning and was one of the founders of the Cominform, the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, in 1947.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria.

From Time Magazine Archive

On June 28, 1948, the world was startled by the announcement that Yugoslavia had been expelled from the new international Communist organization, the Cominform.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tito was obviously determined not to be lured back into a new Cominform like the one that expelled him in 1948, calling him Fascist, jackal and traitor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yugoslav influence began with the founding in 1941 of the Albanian Communist Party, in which some Yugoslav nationals played leading roles, and lasted until Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern