Russia and the soviet union (1 Viewer)

[pb1234]

Hey,
Was just a bit unsure of what soviet foreign policy is. Is it like war communism, nep, collectivisation, industrialisation, collectivisation?
Any help would be appreciated!

 

[NinaChapps]

Well, I haven't exactly studies foreign policy but I have studied the rest of Russia and I'm pretty sure that Collectivisation and industrialisation are stalin's economic policies and War communism and NEP are the Bolsheviks economic policies.

 

[pb1234]

Well, I haven't exactly studies foreign policy but I have studied the rest of Russia and I'm pretty sure that Collectivisation and industrialisation are stalin's economic policies and War communism and NEP are the Bolsheviks economic policies.

So if you got a question about soviet foreign policy until 1941 you would talk about each of these policies?

 

[pb1234]

Could you also talk about the bolshevik decrees in 1917? (land given to peasants, changes in working hours, banning of non-bolshevik newspapers etc?)

 

[NinaChapps]

Since I haven't 100% covered foreign policy and don't want to mislead you, I found this.

It's pretty simple, what it means is how did communist ideology (and changes in it) affect foreign policy from 1917-1941 e.g. 1917 there was Brest-Litovisk and a belief in permanant revolution, however, as PR did not seem to be working (along with the advent of the Civil War resulting in a new set of problems for the Bolsheviks) this policy was abandoned. Further examples include the dual nature of communist foreign policy through Comintern (which encouraged worldwide revolution: "Workers of the world unite!") contrasted to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (which tried to make peace with the West and establish trade relations). Then you could talk about the impact of Stalinism (and Stalin's policy of "Socialism in One Country") and how this affected foreign policy (how the Comintern basically stopped functioning in 1935 due to changes in approach by Stalin) etc etc. As you can see, as ideology changes (for various reasons) this impacts on foreign policy. Hope this helped.

Sorry I couldn't help you more

 

[pb1234]

Okay thanks heaps!

 

[NinaChapps]

No problem. Heres a comprehensive table of all the changes in foreign policy.

http://www.boredofstudies.org/download.php?id=9122

 

[declanbehan]

You need to talk about FOREIGN factors affecting policy - hence foreign policy
things like:

- Treaty of Rapallo
- Nazi-Soviet Non Agreession Pacr
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Anglo-Soviet agreements

etc
etc
etc