HIS344Y1 Lecture : October 26th 2010
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An arms race is not unusual but it was the first time, they were compiling weapon systems that had the capacity to destroy the world. At the early stages of the cold war that could have changed the nature of the conflict and led a different outcome. 1953, there were serious changes in the eastern and western parts of the world j soviet. In the us, eisenhower came into power j republicans. In russia, stalin died and his entire foreign policy and interpretation of international relations died. Revisionists argue that there was genuine relaxation and the us and the western world could have a meaningful conversation in 1953, but the us failed because of its own interests and. :@ lz zzky turned a blind eye to the american methods whether genuine or not, they were methods to undermine the soviet union. It was beria who carried out many of the purges, whose name is associated with many executed.
