Vladimir Lenin

Lenin established the Communist International (Comintern) in

1919. The Comintern served as the central body for directing
Communist parties all over the world. This International was not only
more radical than the Socialist International, it was also less
democratic because it followed closely the top-down governance of
the Bolsheviks. Many of the world's states feared the Comintern,
believing that it was working in secret to stir up revolutions in their
countries (which was true).
 A problem arose during World War II when the Soviet Union joined
the Allied Powers in 1941. The United States and the United Kingdom
would, of course, not trust the Soviet Union in their fight against
Hitler's Germany. These countries wondered if the Soviet Union was
trying to promote revolutions in their backyards. To appease his allies,
Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, dissolved the Comintern in 1943.
After the war, however, Stalin re-established the Comintern as the
Communist Information Bureau (Cominform). The Soviet Union took
over the countries in Eastern Europe when the United States, the Soviet
Union, and Great Britain divided the war-torn Europe into their
respective spheres of influence. The Cominform, like the Comintern
before it, helped direct the various communist narties that had taken
power in Eastern Europe.
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