Stalin's Russia: A New World Order
What happened to Russia after the war...
Politicaly
Economicaly
Military
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- Created on: 07-04-13 16:37
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- Stalin's Russia: A New World Order
- Political
- Conferences in Tehran & Yalta
- Stalin Roosevelt & Churchill agreed:
- Divide Europe into 2.
- Russia have east as Communist sympathisers
- East Europe had Stalinist model (Politburo & Communist Party & c)
- "Eastern Block" emerged that Moscow controlled Created trust break-down between East & West Europe that created 'Cold War'
- Stalin Roosevelt & Churchill agreed:
- Stalin believed the Soviet 'Sphere of influence' had no room for Western democracy
- Red Army established Communist Gov. in:
- East Germany
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- Poland
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Conferences in Tehran & Yalta
- Military
- Atomic scientist Igor Kurchatov led Soviet nuclear bomb project
- In response to US nuclear bombing Hiroshima & Nagosaki
- Tests showed Russia & America equal in military technology (competition created)
- 'RDS-1' first soviet atomic bomb tested in 1949 in Kazakhstan
- Took soviets less than 4 years & America 6 years
- 'Layer cake' first hydrogen bomb tested i 1953.
- X10 more powerful than 1st generation weapons
- Atomic scientist Igor Kurchatov led Soviet nuclear bomb project
- Economic
- 4th Five-Year Plan= Heavy Industry as lowered due to WW2
- 1945: 45% less steel production than in 1940
- 26% less pig-steel than in 1940 production
- economy deliberately geared for war
- 7.4 billion roubles allocated to defence spending (in 1940 it had been 5.7 billion r)
- 40's & 50's= economic growth. Industrial production 1952 doubled 1940's.
- Exceeding 4th Five-Year Plan target
- Glass 90%, Cement 75%, Electicity 87% higher
- 1946-1951: living conditions worse than in 1930's
- 50% housing destroyed & 90% central heating systems in Moscow didn't work,
- Political
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