HST 296 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Cominform, Marshall Plan, Stalinism
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Nation states were slower to emerge here. The state is the west was more dominant than in the west: politically and economically. By 1949 many countries in eastern europe were ruled by communism. Marshall plan june 1947 and growing independence of yugoslavia forced stalin to keep his promise. Yugoslavia pushed out of cominform because they broke internationalist traditions of communism. Communist parties expanded in the 1940"s then after the war they began to dismiss those who were not truly loyal to communism. Stalinization: replacing the market with the party as the determining mechanism. Wanted things to be cost efficient, criteria of quality and consumer preference rarely applied. Ex: in 1939 hungary made 80 different types of shoes, in 1950s only 16 different types of shoes were made. Stalin died in march 1953: power struggles began. State was ruled by a group of men(georgi malenkov, lavrenti beria, nikita. Khrushchev): decided that the excesses of stalinism had to stop.
