HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Marshall Plan, Total War, Red Terror
13 Apr 2013
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Rebuilding shortage; no houses due to ariel bombardment, great depression and returning soldiers. Refugees: german ostlanders, holocaust survivors, and other ethnic refugees. Agricultural disruption: soviet crop failures (1946-470); german starvations (1945) Spectre of communism : italy, france, eastern europe, greece (civil war) The marshall plan: 1947 communist agitation in the west, the cia and european anti-communism, the marshal plan (erp) eastern europe barred. Soviet block recovery 1945 -1949: purging of old order, nazi collaborators, class enemies, food expropriation for home front 1945-1946, revolution from within 1945-1948, marginalize enemies, socialist coalition governments. Eastern socialism: soviet policy towards eastern europe 1945- 1948, era of coalition governments 1945-1947, moscow friendly, build up the communist party, popular attitudes towards communism. Soviet exploitation: the hammer decends 1948-1953, stalinization, central planning five year plans, heavy indistry, red terror, gulags, post stalinistic communism 1954-1968, nikita khrushchev and de-stalinization, reinvigorate the bolshevik revolution, turning point: 1951 budapest revolution, appraising eastern socialism.
