International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that oversaw the Party's relationships with foreign Communist Parties as well as with international communist front organizations.

[1] It inherited the files and some of the personnel of the Communist International, which disbanded in 1943.

[2] The International Department was found in 1943 at roughly the same time as the Comintern's dissolution.

[3] The Party's relations with international front groups was managed by the Department's International Social Organizations Sector.

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Former building of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU at 8 Old Square, previously the "Boyarsky Dvor" hotel, now the seat of the Presidential Administration of Russia