[2] This publication helped to advance news and theoretical ideas across national boundaries and to unify political campaigns, with an article in the first issue declaring that the journal should become a "constant companion" and source of guidance for its readers.

[3] The magazine was initially produced in four parallel editions—Russian, German, French, and English[2]—and remained in production until the abrupt termination of the Comintern due to wartime political exigencies in 1943.

The Cominform also had its official organ, the weekly newspaper For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy, which closely paralleled the earlier Comintern magazine in function if not form.

This newspaper remained in production until 1956, when the so-called "Secret Speech" of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev led to a restructuring of the world Communist movement which ended the Cominform.

At the start, WMR was published in Russian, German, English, French, Hungarian, Polish, Chinese, Albanian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Korean, Czech, Mongolian, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese.

[6] Ideological orthodoxy was maintained throughout the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, with the sole possible exception of 1968, when an issue was skipped and a chief editor removed following the August Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[7] As the Brezhnev period drew to a close there were some 75 national editions of Problems of Peace and Socialism being published in 40 languages, with distribution taking place in 145 countries.

[6] In addition to publication of the theoretical journal itself, the Prague editorial office of Problems of Peace and Socialism served as a nexus for the sponsorship or co-sponsorship of various international conferences, including large events held in Sofia, Bulgaria in December 1978 and East Berlin in October 1980.

[7] In the view of scholars these events served as de facto substitutes for previous international congresses of the Comintern and Cominform, gathering representatives of various national communist and anti-colonial political parties for the adaptation of policy.

[9] Shortly thereafter it was announced that the publishing house's longtime auxiliary magazine dedicated to publication of official Communist Party statements, Information Bulletin, was being discontinued.

Articles written by critics of the traditional Soviet system such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alexander Dubček, Milovan Đilas and Andrei D. Sakharov began to appear in the magazine's pages as a foil for discussion and debate.