HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Cominform, Hungarian Communist Party, Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
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Class 3: attach the speech to the next assignment paper you"re writing. 5 books and 5 articles for the research paper. Independent foreign policy: balkan federation project, yugoslavia"s expulsion from cominform on 28 june 1948, st. vitus" day. Purges in the people"s democracies: czechoslovakia, rude pravo (25 may 1952, any kind of criticism of soviet policy is treason. Stalinization: political transformation, people required to display loyalty to cult of personality of stalin, people sold on brainwashed image of a good stalin, economic transformation, 5 year plans. Extremely brutal and demanding: forced collectivization. People were upset as people just received their land in 1945 and then it got taken away 3 years later: consequences. Not very effective system: comecon (council for economic cooperation) 1953-1955 & 23 october 4 november 1956 [revolutionary prime. Not willing to follow moscow line of communism, but on good terms with.
