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STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY

STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY. The War Inside for War Outside USSR Foreign Policy: 1917-1939. THE ISOLATION OF RUSSIA: 1917-1921. Soviet Union diplomatically isolated after Bolshevik revolution Not involved in international initiatives Global outcast. COMFORT IN ISOLATION.

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STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY

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  1. STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY The War Inside for War Outside USSR Foreign Policy: 1917-1939

  2. THE ISOLATION OF RUSSIA: 1917-1921 • Soviet Union diplomatically isolated after Bolshevik revolution • Not involved in international initiatives • Global outcast

  3. COMFORT IN ISOLATION • USSR fine with isolation • Commitment to worldwide revolution • The Comintern

  4. THE END OF ISOLATION • Failure of Comintern • Desperate need of foreign aid • Treaty of Rapallo/Treaty of Berlin • Links with the world

  5. STALIN’S SUSPICION • Fear of foreign intervention

  6. We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. - Stalin

  7. SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY • Original Foreign Policy • Ignoring Communism Abroad • Policy of self-protection • Industrialization the key

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