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Soviet Union under Stalin - Coggle Diagram
Soviet Union under Stalin
Foreign Policy and WW2
1930's: increased involvement in foreign affairs
1938: Munich conference- USSR 'diplomatically isolated'
1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact- annexation of Poland, Baltic states
1939-40: Winter War (Finland)- Demonstrates lack of preparedness of Red Army--> reform
WW2 on E Front (1941-45)
Jun 1941: Operation Barbarossa- Invasion of the USSR (+ rest of Poland)
Disastrous first 6 months (counter-act they reach winter)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)
Siege of Leningrad (1941-44)
Huge Soviet losses (capital, personnel)
Reasons for Sov victory
geography and weather
resilience of Russian people (patriotism)
Economic mobilisation
Propaganda
Alliances
German mistakes
KEY PEOPLE:
Joesph Stalin
NKVD
Yezhov
Yagoda
Beria
wartime leaders
Molotov
Zhukov
Vasilevsky
Rokossovsky
Cultural change/revolution
religion
intensified attack on religion (eased during WW2)
orthodoxy
islam
education
return to traditional model
women and family
alleged 'great retreat' to traditional values- abortion outlawed, divorce harder to obtain
increase of women in the workforce
arts
increased state control
socialist realism
AIM: creation of 'New Soviet Man'
limited success