The Polish Institute for National Rememberance (IPN) and the Institute of Politcal Studies are jointly organizing an international conference on the Communist movement, 1944-1956 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cominform's establishment in September 2007. The conference will be held in Szklarska Poreba, where the Cominform was probably established (however, that issue is debatable). The conference will be held from 26 to 29 September 2007.

On the one hand, the aim of the conference is to present state-of-the-art in the field of the communist movement operation in the pivotal period of totalitarian system formation in Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the conference is to serve the purpose of making a synthetic approach to those issues.

The conference program has four themes, according to which the sessions will be organized:
1. "Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe in the period of power seizure from 1944 to 1948"
2. "Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe from 1949 to 1956"
3. "Communist parties in the West from 1944 to 1956"
4. "Internal relations in the worldwide communist movement from 1944 to 1956"

Six papers will be presented within each session. The conference will proceed in English, German and Polish with consecutive interpretation.

The deadline for submitting registration forms for those who want to attend the conference with a presentation is 28 February 2007. The registration form should be accompanied by the presentation abstract (up to 500 words) in Polish, English or German.

For more information, please visit http://www.ipn.gov.pl/conference2007