Question by Christina S: How much did Stalin influenced communist parties strategies in Western Europe? ?
Hi guys,I need to answer this question but I have already read 5 books on Stalin and West European politics and none of them say exactly how their strategies were influenced by Stalin. Can you help or recommend a good book? Thanks in advance.
by the way, its between 1945 to 1950. Thanks
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Answer by steve j
No communist committee anywhere in Europe or the world for that matter did anything in those days without the green light from Stalin.
Until the day he died he was the absolute center of the communist world
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Spellbound *JPA RIP says
Lenin established the Communist International to propagate Communist ideas across the World. The Comintern, as it was known, was dominated by the Soviet Union. All policies of foreign Communist parties were handed to them by this organisation.
During WWII as a mark of good faith Stalin disbanded the Comintern and established the Communist Information Bureau, Cominform, it had a similar function but it was a bit less confrontational than the Comintern.
Like all things Soviet central planning was considered essential even how individual communist parties should act – so all communist parties that were associated with the Cominform were, in fact, branches of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and all "local" decisions were in reality made in Moscow.
See:
Martin MacCauley – The Soviet Union 1917 – 1991
Robert Service – Stalin, A Biography
and Leonard Shapiro -The Communist Party of the Soviet Union