Word: cominform
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...Castro is not sending anyone because he bristles at Moscow's conservative line in Latin America. Among the Asian parties that are staying away are the Japanese, who are hoping for a rapprochement between their party and China. Revisionist Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, who broke with the Cominform in 1948, was not even invited. Neither were the Burmese, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian Communists, probably as punishment for their closeness with China...
Communism may no longer have a single line or direction, but it remains highly organized, aggressively international, and more intensely competitive than ever as a result of Sino-Soviet rivalry. Though the Cominform (successor to the Comintern) was dissolved in 1956, control over the worldwide Communist movement is still vested in special departments of the Soviet and Chinese Central Committees. Of the world's 105 Communist Parties, Moscow can count on 72, as against 21 for Peking. Twelve other Communist Parties-mostly in Western Europe-are vaguely independent. In 1964, foreign aid by Communist countries amounted to $1.7 billion...
Moving Closer. Still, there was more to Brezhnev's visit than a glamour competition. Ever since Tito's break with the Cominform in 1948, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have been the touchstone for Moscow's relations with the world's other Communist parties. While Stalin lived, satellite leaders were ruthlessly purged if they were suspected of sympathizing with Tito's nationalistic ideas. Under Khrushchev's more flexible policy, which allows other Communist rulers greater domestic independence but still preserves the political supremacy of the Soviet Union. Tito has been steadily wooed closer to the Kremlin...
Like most slaps in the face, this one promised to create difficulties for the slapper. It calculatedly opened the breach wider between Russia and Yugoslavia than it had been since the Cominform excommunication of Tito in 1948. It all but destroyed prospects for an early summit meeting. (Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim...
...next-door neighbor, Comrade Tito, whom he called "the Trojan horse of the imperialist camp" in Eastern Europe. He was sorry that he had ever tried to make up with the fellow, and now argued (contrary to his enthusiastic courtship of Tito three years ago) that Stalin's Cominform had done right to expel Yugoslavia in 1948. "Revisionism, or right-wing opportunism," is now the major problem of the Communist camp, said Khrushchev, and he was all against different roads to socialism, or letting a hundred flowers bloom. (Echoed Peking: "The fight against revisionism has just begun. It must...