"Courageous Failure" - how valid is this assessment of Khrushchev's policy towards minorities, satellite states, and Asia?
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- "Courageous Failure" - how valid is this assessment of Khrushchev's policy towards minorities, satellite states and Asia?
- Courageous Failure
- Khrushchev atempted to control Tito and Yugoslavia through appeasement but failed
- Their autonomy could have encouraged dissent in other eastern European countries
- Hungarian Crisis
- seen as a return to Stalinism
- communist parties in the west lost support
- Berlin Wall
- Khrushchev seen as too willing to be repressive when his liberal ideas failed
- De-Stalinisation and China
- China was trying to claim to be the world leader for communism as Khrushchev appeared weak
- Caused communist countries to choose sides which divided the movement
- China was trying to claim to be the world leader for communism as Khrushchev appeared weak
- Khrushchev atempted to control Tito and Yugoslavia through appeasement but failed
- Courageous Success
- Khrushchev managed to gain Tito's support over the Hungarian rising
- The West failed to intervene in the Hungarian crisis which was a propaganda win
- Khrushchev's actions in Berlin secured the city and economy without initiating a war with an invasion
- The Soviet Union remained the leading communist country while attempting détente
- e.g. Soviet Union refused to help China with atomic weapons or their conflicts with India and Taiwan
- Courageous Failure
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