SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 19211933

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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 1921-1933
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AIMS

• To see how the aims of Soviet foreign policy
  changed from 1921 and 1933.
• To investigate whether the USSR was closer to GB
  or to Germany.

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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY UNDER LENIN

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
• Foreign intervention in Civil War.
• Attack on Poland after Civil War the red
  bridge into Europe.
• Polish workers failed to rise up.
• Lenin realised that coexistence rather than world
  revolution was more realistic.
• Lenin aimed to divide the allies made move
  towards Germany (Rapallo, 1922).

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COMINTERN

• The Communist International.
• Group of international socialists.
• Workers expected to support Soviet regime by all
  means including revolution.
• Fear of Communism fuelled as a result.
• Attempts to stir up revolution failed (p. 247).

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2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

• More Soviet control over Communist parties.
• Results1. Reduced the appeal of Communist
  Parties in other countries.2. Reduced the USSRs
  chances of establishing relations with European
  countries.
• Curzon Ultimatum (1923).
• Zinoviev Letter (1924).

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RELATIONS WITH GB GERMANY

• USSR could not remain isolated needed to trade
  to grow.
• Use pages 248-249 to complete the following table
  to see which country the USSR was closest to.

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CHANGES UNDER STALIN

• Socialism In One Country.
• One Soviet tractor is worth ten good foreign
  Communists.
• Massacre of Chinese Communists by Chiang
  Kai-shek, 1927.
• Comintern followed Soviet shifts in policy
  (divided Left in Germany).