Assoc. Prof. Bisser Petrov, DSc.
Institute for Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-3-2-slav
Absract. The article examines the activities of the established at the end of 1946 Pan-Slavic Committee in Belgrade which, however, lasted only a year and a half. The Committee was created with the intention of being the centralized and ruling body of the Kremlin-born Slavic Movement after June 22, 1941. The emergence of the Committee came at a time when relations between the partners of the Anti-Axis Coalition had begun to deteriorate, and this circumstance inevitably made a direct impact on the tasks it was assigned. After the final bloc division of Europe and the Tito – Stalin split, the very existence of the Pan-Slavic Committee became
meaningless, since the political exploitation of the idea of Slavic unity no longer fitted into the new realities and this resulted in its abolishment in the mid of 1948.
Keywords: New Slavic Movement; Pan-Slavic Committee; Cominform; people’s democracy; Soviet model of socialism