STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY
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STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY
The War Inside for War OutsideUSSR Foreign Policy: 1917-1939
THE ISOLATION OF RUSSIA: 1917-1921
• Soviet Union diplomatically isolated after Bolshevik revolution
• Not involved in international initiatives
• Global outcast
COMFORT IN ISOLATION
• USSR fine with isolation
• Commitment to worldwide revolution
• The Comintern
THE END OF ISOLATION
• Failure of Comintern
• Desperate need of foreign aid
• Treaty of Rapallo/Treaty of Berlin
• Links with the world
STALIN’S SUSPICION
• Fear of foreign intervention
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
- Stalin
SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY
• Original Foreign Policy
• Ignoring Communism Abroad
• Policy of self-protection
• Industrialization the key