HIS306H5 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Arms Race, Peaceful Coexistence, Totalitarianism
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February 6 th , 2014 : peaceful coexistence vs. deepening tensions: berlin & cuba. Making sure the soviet union wasn"t spending the bulk of their money on arms race, he understood support for socialism may evaporate. Khrushchev"s secret speech the text of this was not supposed to become public. Congress is the first time its convened since soviets death, his time as new leader to lay off his vision. To the shock he denounced stalinism, the exploitative totalitarian nature, he the part of personality around himself, make the soviet union all about stalin. Mau"s mind because he"s doing everything stalin was doing. Stalin is the doctrine of inevitable conflict of communist and imperialism, he says it"s stupid, doesn"t have to be inevitable conflict. the contradictions need not produce wars, there is a chance the us and su can coexist peacefully. Still thinks that communist will win, show the world its better system.
