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March 13, 1953 issue of For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy! covering the funeral of Joseph Stalin. Leaders shown at the podium, from left to right; Gheorghiu Dej, Bolesław Bierut, Pak Chong-ae, Walter Ulbricht, Dolores Ibárruri, Otto Grotewohl, Valko Chervenkov, Mátyás Rákosi, Pietro Nenni, Palmiro Togliatti, Jacques Duclos, Klement Gottwald, Nikolai Bulganin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrentiy Beria, Maksim Saburov, Zhou Enlai, Mikhail Pervukhin, Lazar Kaganovich, Nikolay Shvernik, Anastas Mikoyan.

For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy! was the press organ of the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties] ('Cominform').[1][2][3] The first issue was published on November 1, 1947, from the Yugoslav capital Belgrade.[4][5] The last issue to be published from Belgrade came out in June 1948.[6] From July 1948 the newspaper was subsequently published from Bucharest, Romania, after a decision of the Second Cominform Conference to move the editorial office out of Belgrade.[6][7][8][9] Published weekly, it was issued in English, French (Pour une paix durable , pour une democratie populaire!), Russian (За прочный мир, за народную демократию!), Bulgarian (За траен мир , за народна демокрация!), German (Für dauerhaften Frieden, für Volksdemokratie!), Czech (Za trvalý mír, za lidovou demokracii!), Hungarian (Tartós békéért, népi demokráciáért!) and Polish (O trwały pokój, o demokrację ludową!) language editions.[2][3] The newspaper sought to promote exchanges between communist parties.[3] Initially there had also been a Serbo-Croat language edition of the newspaper (Za trajan mir, za narodnu demokratiju![10]).[4]

The publication was banned by the French government in early 1951, after which a new French-language edition titled Paix et démocratie ('Peace and Democracy') began to be published in France.[11]

The publication of For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy! ended in April 1956.[6]

References

  1. ^ The Soviet Union is the Bulwark of Peace, Democracy and Socialism. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1952. p. 53.
  2. ^ a b Library of Congress. Processing Department (September 1955). East European Accessions List. p. 57.
  3. ^ a b c The Current Digest of the Soviet Press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1956. pp. 6, 33.
  4. ^ a b Henry Peyret (1961). L'U.R.S.S. Presses universitaires de France. p. 177.
  5. ^ Paolo Spriano (1985). Stalin and the European Communists. Verso. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-86091-103-6.
  6. ^ a b c Hans Mommsen (1974). Geschichte: Faschismus bis Leibeigenschaft. Verlag nicht ermittelbar. p. 271. ISBN 978-3-585-32039-8.
  7. ^ Giuliano Procacci (1994). Annali della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1994). The Cominform. Minutes of the three Conferences (1947-1949). Feltrinelli Editore. p. 645. ISBN 978-88-07-99050-2.
  8. ^ Tony Judt (5 September 2006). Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 405. ISBN 978-1-4406-2476-6.
  9. ^ East European Accessions List. Library of Congress, Processing Department. July 1954. p. 68.
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  11. ^ Institut Maurice Thorez (1979). Cahiers d'histoire de l'Institut Maurice Thorez. p. 200.

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