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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY

SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY. 1920s – 1930s. Trotsky & Leftists collaborate with foreign revolutionaries to undermine the capitalist regimes Stalin focused on MATERIAL strength, therefore allowed co-existence with capitalists where needed. Role of Lenin??.

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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY

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  1. SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 1920s – 1930s

  2. Trotsky & Leftists collaborate with foreign revolutionaries to undermine the capitalist regimes • Stalin focused on MATERIAL strength, therefore allowed co-existence with capitalists where needed. • Role of Lenin?? What different ideas did Soviet leaders put forward in the 1920s re: Soviet Security?

  3. How serious was the foreign threat to the USSR in the 1930s?

  4. Major change in tactics • Mutual assistance pacts France & Czechoslovakia 1935 • Joins League of Nations 1934 • Use of Popular Fronts By 1935 Nazis were identified as a threat, but unclear as to how to deal with them. In what ways, if any, was Soviet foreign policy changed by the rise of Nazism in the 1930s?

  5. 1939 MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT How did the Soviet Union get there? See the relations chart Go to http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html and answer the following questions: Why is it a ‘non-aggression’ pact? In your own words, describe what the pact (Articles 1-7) is about. For how long is this Pact in effect? What is meant by a ‘secret protocol’? How is territory to be divided?

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