ARTS1271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eric Hobsbawm, George Orwell, Truman Doctrine
11 Oct 2018
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Early post war: setting the course: recognised only red army could defeat germany, poland and germany difficult (reparations, riven with tension and distrust, soviet eats into europe up to east germany. Ideological differences allies and soviet (marriage of convenience) Role of the bomb: a statement of power letting soviet union know who tops, murray sayle. Role of ideology: truman doctrine americans did not see themselves as ideological, policy of containment, declaration of ideological war, missionary calling to intervene. The marshall plan: m aid to western europe, aid as ideology: countered local communist parties, rejected by stalin (in eastern) as facilitating us ideological supremacy. Standoff: soviet blockade of west berlin 1948-49, food airlifted into western nations, one of most tension episodes. Two armed camps, each capable of world destruction: equilibrium via treaties, nato north atlantic treaty organisation, 1949, warsaw pact, 1955. Ideological commonality: human societies could evolve, deriving from darwin and marx, hierarchy of societies, universalist assumptions, bigger than nationalism.
