Joseph StalinJuly 1947
Orders communist-dominated Governments to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Orders communist-dominated Governments to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme
Comecon is established at a Moscow economic conference January 5-January 8, 1949, at which the six founding member countries are represented
Comecons foundation is publicly announced
The Comecon was the Eastern Blocs reply to the formation of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in western Europe. Founds the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance to improve Soviet bloc trade. Founded by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
East Germany joins the Comecon
The Polish protests and Hungarian uprising led to major social and economic changes, including the 1957 abandonment of the 1956-1960 Soviet five-year plan, as the Comecon Governments struggled to reestablish their legitimacy and popular support
A Comecon council session approved the Basic Principles of the International Socialist Division of Labour, which talked of closer coordination of plans and of "concentrating production of similar products in one or several socialist countries"
Calls for "a common single planning organ", resisted by Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, but most emphatically by increasingly nationalistic Romania, which strongly rejected the notion that they should specialize in agriculture
Calls for "a common single planning organ", resisted by Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, but most emphatically by increasingly nationalistic Romania, which strongly rejected the notion that they should specialize in agriculture. Mongolia joins the Comecon
The Comecon ceases to function
The final Comecon council session takes place June 28, 1991 in Budapest, and led to an agreement to disband within 90 days
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