ESSAY: Internal and External Policies of Stalin
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- ESSAY: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POLICIES OF STALIN
- INTRO: -Socialism in 1 country vs. Perm. Revol. -Leadership contest
- Economic Policies
- Collectivistion & Impact
- 5 Year Plans & Impact
- Terror
- 1934 murder Kirov - start of Reign of Terror
- NKVD eliminated enemies, many innocent killed
- Estab. S as absolute master
- Totaliarianism
- country paralysed w fear
- Propaganda
- education
- youth movements - little octobrists
- media was state controlled
- artists and writers forced to promote regime
- Cult of Personality
- architect of communism, gardener of human happiness etc.
- Leningrad - Stalingrad
- EXTERNAL
- Kellog Briand Pact 1928 - needed peace to develop communism.
- League of Nations - UK + Fr. too anti- communist. -suspicious of show trials
- Munich Agreement - Sudentenland
- Spanish Civil War - prolong war to delay invasion of USSR. -effective as drained Italy
- Nazi- Soviet Pact - gave time to build army and prepare for war
- WW2
- tactics used by Zhukov won war
- -orderly retreat + wait for Russian winter -Scorched Earth
- Prop: 'The Great Patriotic War'
- Defence of Stalingrad - greatest defeat for Germans
- CONCL: -econ policies were vital in winning war
- consolidated Socialism in 1 Country
- Dictatorship wasn't Marx's communism
- Stalin still admired in USSR
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