Khrushchev's Fall
- Created by: lyd_kate
- Created on: 09-01-18 20:03
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- Khrushchev's Fall
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Khrushchev’s personality & temperament
- Directly involved in domestic & foreign affairs
- Vulnerable, personal involvement. e.g. Virgin lands, related background
- Aggressive - removed shoe & hammered it on table at UN meeting
- Less authority as Stalin - Secret speech 1956 wanted to remove 'cult of personality'
- Attack on Stalinism
- Party leaders were afraid of view of past actions, scared for party's rep. Politburo and Central Committee could overthrow him
- Impact of Cold War events, diplomacy and foreign policy
- Conflict with China over moral leadership of Communist world never fully resolved
- Hopes for independent satellites but had to use military intervention (Hungary)
- Seemed to be giving in to America when agreed to remove nuclear weapons
- Cuts to army annoyed generals, money spent on nuclear missiles
- Economic policies
- Decentralising economic planning unliked by Bereaucratic governors, owed positions to Stalin, challenged positions
- Limitations of agricultural reforms
- Virgin Lands Scheme lands with little rainfall & incorrect storage facilities.
- Crops often grown in unsuitable soil, unsuitable young volunteers
- Opposition to Communism
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Khrushchev’s personality & temperament
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