By the end of September 2007 it will have been 60 years since the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) was established. The Cominform was an unsuccessful attempt to settle the situation of the communist movement and at the same time to make the policy of European countries of the forming Soviet bloc uniform. This anniversary constitutes a pretext for the international scholarly conference organized by the Institute of National Remembrance devoted to the history of the communist movement in its pivotal period from 1944 to 1956. The conference will be held near 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:

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