POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franco-Prussian War, Seedbed, Planned Economy
28 Oct 2014
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Military defeat of fascism: fascism threatened and crowded out democratic alternatives in interwar europe. Democratic consolidation required at a minimum the military defeat of fascism. A measure of its sway in europe was the difficulty in removing it. Occupation of germany and political separation of east and west: germany is occupied roughly along the lines of the occupying allied forces: british and. American sectors on the one hand, the soviet russian sector on the other. The division between these sectors becomes the rough basis for the division of. The soviet model of state socialism is exported to the rest of europe. [read bunce for the key institutional features of state socialism] Union, the importance of imperial structure within the soviet bloc so that development is not state-led but is to an important extent subordinated to the needs and interests of the imperial center party-state of the soviet.
