Foreign policy 2

Question 1

What happened to Beria after Stalin’s death

Answer 1

Was arrested by army generals and executed - it was believed he had too much influence over the party

Question 2

What did Khrushchev do in 1956

Answer 2

• Had a secret speech at the 20th party congress
• attacked cult of personality
• read out Lenin’s testament
• Cast doubts on the execution of old Bolsheviks

Question 3

Khrushchev quote

Answer 3

what sort of communism is it that cannot provide sausages

Question 4

Soviet expansion

Answer 4

• Poland 1939
• Hungary 1947
• Czechoslovakia 1948
• East Germany 1946

Question 5

USSR’s relations with China from 1927 - Stalin’s aims and actions

Answer 5

• Stalin backed the GMD and CKS as he believed this party was more likely to bring stability to Russia’s eastern borders
• Stalin also very suspicious of Marxist ideology developed by the CCP
• Stalin tried to get the CCP to join forces with the GMD however didn’t work as…
• March 1926, GMD massacred striking workers and established a military dictatorship - massacred a further 30,000 workers in Wuhan in 1937

Question 6

Results of Russia’s relations with China

Answer 6

• Stalin grew more concerned about the stability of Russia
• Links between the CCP and the USSR weakened

Question 7

Sino soviet relations up to 1933

Answer 7

• 3 way alliance formed in 1924 between the CCP, USSR and the Goumindang party
• May 1924 the Bolsheviks and the GMD signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations
• in 1926, the new leader of the GMD, Chiang Kai-shek, dismissed soviet advisors - Stalin didn’t want to admit that the alliance wasn’t working out
• This new leader of the GMD also purged the CCP which resulted in the Chinese civil war = 1927-1949
• During the civil war the Soviets gave limited support to the CCP as Stalin felt the GMD would win which meant that relations between the USSR and the new CCP leader of China, Mao Zedong, would never fully recover