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19 Post-Stalin Era: Nationalism, Culture, and Foreign Policy

19 Post-Stalin Era: Nationalism, Culture, and Foreign Policy. Overview. Main Themes Nationalities: From Fusion to Fission Culture: Thaw, Repression, Dissent Foreign Policy: Confrontation, Détente, Crisis Conclusions. A. Main Themes.

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19 Post-Stalin Era: Nationalism, Culture, and Foreign Policy

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  1. 19Post-Stalin Era: Nationalism, Culture, and Foreign Policy

  2. Overview • Main Themes • Nationalities: From Fusion to Fission • Culture: Thaw, Repression, Dissent • Foreign Policy: Confrontation, Détente, Crisis • Conclusions

  3. A. Main Themes • Nationality: neither integration nor suppression, denial and disintegration • Khrushchev’s thaw: concessions and conflict • Brezhnev era: repression and rise of dissent • Antireligious campaigns • Khrushchev’s USSR: confrontation

  4. B. Nationalities: From Fusion to Fission • Demography • Post-Stalin Policy: Voluntary Fusion • Politics: Slavic Center, Non-slavic periphery • Economics • Cultural issue: language, literature, religion • Dissent: minority and Russian nationalism • 1980s: Centrifugal forces prevail

  5. Central Asia: Two Worlds

  6. C. Culture • Khrushchev: Concessions and Conflict • “Thaw” • Conflict and consternation • Antireligious campaign • Brezhnev: Repression and dissent • Repression • Dissidenty: Dissenters • Diversity of dissent

  7. Moscow Youth Festival (1957)

  8. Krokodil Satire: Soviet Hippies (1969)

  9. Boris Pasternak

  10. Elena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov

  11. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  12. Vladimir VysotskiiBard and Actor

  13. Leaving the Village (1965 Painting)

  14. D. Foreign Policy • Principal issues • Khrushchev era • Goals and strategy • Bloc politics • West: accommodation, competition, confrontation • Brezhnev era • Goals and strategy • Bloc politics: Czechs, Chinese, and Poles • Developing countries • Détente • Kabul and confrontation

  15. Soviet Tanks in Budapest1956

  16. Budapest 1956

  17. Mao, Stalin, Khrushchev

  18. Khrushchev-Mao Negotiations1959

  19. “Good Morning, Africa!”

  20. Prague 1968: Student Confronts Soviet Tank

  21. Prague 1968: Students Exhort Soviet Soldiers to Leave

  22. Afghanistan: Graveyard of Soviet Tanks

  23. Soviet-Afghan War

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