Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Post Stalin Thaw & Peaceful Coexistence
- Stalin
- Died: March 1953
- De-Stalinisation
Anmerkungen:
- Politburo endorsed collective leadership, (Malenkov, Molotov, Bulganin, Kruschev)
- Ending 'Personality Cult' Policies
- Reforming secret police (KGB)
- Arresting and executing Beria (1953)
- New economic policy, focus on consumer
goods.
- KRUSCHEV'S SECRET
SPEECH 1956
Anmerkungen:
- High point of De-stalinisation, denounced Stalin for six hours, USA saw it as real change happening in USSR
- Kruschev
- Clear Leader by 1958
- Move towards Peaceful Coexistence
- Malenkov called for a 'New Couse'
- War not inevitable, so could devote resources to raising living standards
- Kruschev opposed, but adopted policy under 'Peaceful Coexistence'
- Kruschev confident USSR economic output would soon overtake West
- By the end of the 40s, both sides had consolidated
respective spheres in Europe
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- End of Korean War - 1953
- Cuts in Red Army
- Austrian State Treaty - 1955
- Soviet Withdrawal from Finland - 1956
- Internal Threats
- Berlin Rising - June 1953