HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Warsaw Pact, Hungarian Revolution Of 1956, Mao Zedong
Postwar Economic, Social, and Cultural Recovery and Change, 1945-1970
Common Market v. Comecon
• How did the economic systems evolve in East and West Europe?
• Why were they so different?
o Circumstances of East and West were very different
o Comecon- command economy; government sets everything, who produces
what, where it goes, how much it is sold for
o Government decides your education and their career path
o Measurement:
• What were the consequences for Europeans?
• What was the impact of economic forces on the everyday lives of Europeans?
Eastern Europe: Key Principles
• Theoretical/ideological framework: Marxism/Leninism
• Communist political, social and cultural indoctrination
• Non-market economic system and generous social welfare net
• Politial ad eooi soialist iteratioalis Warsa Pat ad Coeo
Revisionism
• Yugosla self-aaged arket soialis
• Hungary 1956 and after
• Czechoslovakia 1968-69
Western Europe: EC
• Economic cooperation required by Marshall Plan
• Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman: pool and coal and steel (Coal and Steel Community)
• Treaty of Rome, 1956; Common Market (end custom barriers, common tariffs, trade
policies)
• Euratom
Welfare State
• Postwar and Postcolonial Government intervention into everyday lives to guarantee
minimum standards of well-being for all citizens in imitation of the Swedish programs
introduced in the 1930s
• Why did the welfare state become so popular globally after 1945?
• Why was it so important?
Challenges to Soviet System
• Thaw: release of political prisoners
• 1956 Polish railroad workers strike for better pay. Khrushchev helps negotiate
settlement
• 1956 Hungarians revolt, threaten to leave Warsaw Pact, forces sent in to end rebellion
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Document Summary
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