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

Early on, and especially after Yugoslavia’s expulsion from Cominform, in 1948, the authorities had rejected the socialist realism espoused in the U.S.S.R. as unfit to represent a progressive society.

From The New Yorker

At 86, Tito still rules The opening date had been chosen with care: exactly 30 years after fiercely independent Yugoslavia was expelled from Joseph Stalin's Cominform for what became known as "Titoism."

From Time Magazine Archive

When Vyacheslav Molotov stepped out of the Soviet Foreign Ministry last June, the day before the ceremonial reception to Marshal Tito, the reason seemed obvious: as the man who had signed the letters that expelled Yugoslavia from the Cominform, Molotov was unacceptable to Tito.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The Cominform was meeting in full conclave.

From Time Magazine Archive