The Thaw (Soviets)
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- Created on: 27-04-14 10:08
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- The Thaw- Soviet side
- New leadership
- post collective leadership- Khrushchev
- No paranoid Stalin
- Stalin died in 1953
- Collective leadership 1953-55; Molotov, Malenkov, Beria and Khrushchev
- Malenkov- wanted "New Course", developed with K's Peaceful Coexsistence
- Domestic pressure
- Pressure for consumer goods in the USSR
- Hearing Radio Free Europe and adverts for goods
- Most money going towards the Cold War
- Giving aid and now Warsaw Pact- not much spent domestically
- Pressure for consumer goods in the USSR
- Economic needs
- 1/3 of economy devoted to defense
- Not enough food being produced for all
- Struggling to meet targets set
- Importing grain instead of giving it to citizens
- Stretching the economy further than it could go
- The Arms Race
- Summits- Khrushchev is aggressive but confident
- Pretends to be superior- but not and failing
- Potemkinism- Moscow Air Show
- US is ahead- 1959 visit to US sees growing awareness of U2 spy plane
- If worked- could discover the reality of their nuclear situation
- By late 1950s, struggling to keep up
- Realising neither side could win- reduction needed
- New leadership
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