After Stalin's death
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- After Stalin's death (1953)
- Khrushchev, Malenkov, Molotov and Beria shared power for 3 years
- This leadership attempted to reform the Stalinist system
- Ended the cult of personality
- Reformed secret police
- Followed new course in economic policy which placed greater emphasis on consumer goods
- This leadership attempted to reform the Stalinist system
- Peaceful coexistance
- First used in 1952 by Malenkov but under Khrushchev became policy
- Still believed the downfall of capitalism was inevitable
- Best way of conducting relations in the meantime
- Nuclear too dangerous to contemplate
- Why this policy was pursued
- Political
- After Stalin's death (1953) Soviet leadership was to go through another time of rivalry.
- Provided opportunity to have different approach to deal with the West
- Both sides more likely to negotiate
- Military
- Cold war made dangerous by development of nuclear weapons
- By 1955 both sides had hydrogen bombs
- Economic
- The arms race involved committing large sums of money to military
- 1/3 of soviet economy was geared to the military sector
- The arms race involved committing large sums of money to military
- Political
- USA
- Eisenhower won presidential election (1952)
- New look
- Took a hardline approach against communism
- Brinkmanship
- Not shying away from threatening nuclear response
- Massive retaliation
- Threatened the use of nuclear weapons against any agressive move by the communist bloc
- He was more confident than Truman
- Keen to avoid prospect of nuclear annihilation
- A reasoned approach
- Improving living standards by decreasing military expenditure.
- New look
- Eisenhower won presidential election (1952)
- Destalinisation
- Attempts to liberalize the USSR after the death of Stalin
- Promised a return to the policy of 'different roads to socialism'
- Khrushchev's speech (1956)
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- Khrushchev, Malenkov, Molotov and Beria shared power for 3 years
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