Soviet Foreign Policy III Flashcards
Leadership Rivalry after Stalin
After Stalins death a collective leadership rules the USSR Period of power struggle in the politburo central decision making organ of communist party
Main figures of the Power struggle
Different ministers
Krushev defeats his rivals: Beria is arrested and executed in 1953
Kruschev and Malenkov rule together until 1955, malenkov is replaced by Bulganin in 1955
De- stalinization
New objet leadership accuses for Stalin for hi scribes, starts some degree of liberalisation in the countr, release some political prissioners, ends large scale Labor in the economy
In foreign policy less confrontational policies
Diplomatic initatives towards Greece, Israel and Turkey
An armistice is signed in Korea
1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina and Korea
1955 Geneva spirit ( first summit after Potsdam conference); USSR proposes the mutual disbandment of NATO and Warsaw Pact and the signing of a separate European security treaty
However Federal Germany’s entry into NATO in 1955 results in the establishement of Warsaw Pact by the USSR
