HISTORY 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: No Alternative, Georgy Malenkov, Finlandization
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History 332 lecture 20 undoing stalin. The suny theses : the soviet union, by stalin"s time, had become an odd normal state. Turkey and greece: the marshall plan, formation of nato and division of germany, stalin realizes the us will not help him and clamps down on. Eastern europe: 1949-1953, eastern europe goes through purges, national communists are purged and executed, police rule until the time of stalin"s death. Inside the mind of stalin: stalin and other top soviet leader felt threated by the united states in 1945, threat is a perception, plausible threats are closer, look more real, and are palpable vs. In 1945, the eastern part of poland was annexed to ukraine and belarus and annexed some of germany"s land. In stalin"s years, the state became more important than the party: nikita khrushchev (1953-1964) became the party leader and outflanked.
