What were the central features of Stalinism in Eastern Europe?
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SummaryThe term “Stalinism” refers to the brutal dictatorship which lasted from 1927 to 1953 in
Russia and Eastern European countries. Although he was the leader of Soviet Russia, after the Second World War Stalin soon became the dictator of a Soviet Union which had expanded to most of Eastern Europe. Indeed Stalin along with the Western leaders, rapidly divided up the spheres of influence of the victors of WWII, during unofficial meetings, such as in Churchill's visit to Stalin in October 1944, or official ones, such as the Yalta or the Potsdam meetings, in February and June 1945 respectively. By the end of Potsdam, the satellization of Eastern Europe was nearly complete , and soon the Stalinist system applied to Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Stalin's government has been defined as “A totalizing system, legitimized in terms of perfection, managed by convinced utopians and backed up by terror”. What were the central features of Stalinism in Eastern Europe?
Table of Contents
- The Stalinist ideology and dominating political system
- The modernization process and the economic field
- Stalinism as a totalitarian system
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