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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.

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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. 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. In which direction should Stalin go in the late 1930’s? Toward Britain & France? Toward Germany?

  6. 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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