Transcript Great Fatherland War and Late Stalinism

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The Great Fatherland War and
Postwar Stalinism
Overview
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Themes
Soviet Foreign Policy in the Thirties
“Great Fatherland War”
Postwar Stalinism
A. Main Themes
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Troubled foreign policy of thirties
War preparations and shortcomings
Disaster of 22 June 1941
Reasons for Soviet victory: intelligence,
German occupation, war administration,
leadership, and Allied material aid
5. Impact of war
6. Postwar: declining vozhd’, crisis of Stalinism
7. From allies to confrontation: Cold War
B. Soviet Foreign Policy in the
Thirties
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Issues and Interpretations
NKID: Chicherin, Litvinov, Molotov
Stalin’s Conceptions
Collective Security Debates, 1933-39
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (23.08.1939)
Trotsky, Nazis, and Japanese
(1937)
“If War Comes” (1938)
Signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact (23 Aug 1939)
1939: Children and War Games
C. Great Fatherland War
1. War Preparedness Issue
2. 22 June 1941 and Nazi Blitzkrieg
3. Great Battles: Moscow, Leningrad,
Stalingrad, Kursk
4. Total War and War Crimes
5. Why the USSR Prevailed
6. Impact of the War
Operation “Barbarossa”
Soviet Military Offensive in WWII
Moscow: Listening to News about
the German Invasion (1941)
Stalin Speech to the Nation (1941)
1941 Poster: “The Motherland Is
Calling You!”
1941: German Execution of Red
Army Soldiers
German POWs (1941)
Leningrad: Kirov Workers Armed as
Militia (1941)
Moscow: Citizens Build Defense
Barricades (1941)
Tula: Barricades against Germans
(1941)
Moscow: Civilians Slain by
Germans (1941)
Stalingrad: German Execution of
Soviet Citizens (1941)
Leningrad: German POWs on
Nevskii (1941)
Leningrad: Building Tanks (1942)
Leningrad: “Road of Life” (1942)
Leningrad: Bombardment of
Nevskii (1942)
Leningrad: Partisans Destroy
German Train (1942)
Battle of Stalingrad (Dec 1941)
Moscow Factory: Making Molotov
Cocktails (1941)
German Destruction of Iasnaia
Polana (Tolstoi Estate), 1941
Moscow: November 7 Parade
(1941)
November 7 Parade (1941)
Stalingrad Military Council:
Khrushchev & Eremenko (1942)
Stalingrad: Forced Labor Sent to
Germany (1942)
Ukrainian Slave Labor to Germany
(1942)
After Stalingrad: German POWs
(1942)
German POWs from Stalingrad
Stalingrad: General Paulus
Capitulates (1942)
November 1943: Liberation of
Center of Kiev
American Supplies to Red Army
(1943)
German POWs March in Moscow
(1944)
German POWs Paraded in
Moscow (May 1945)
Leningrad Oblast: Partisan-Priest
as War Hero (1944)
Bishop Luka: War Surgeon
Battle for Berlin: Firing “Katiusha”
Rockets (May 1945)
Soviet Troops: Fighting in Berlin
May 1945
Soviet Flag over Reichstag
(May 1945)
German Military Banners Displayed
in Red Square (May 1945)
Victory Day, 9 May 1945
Stravropol
D. Postwar Stalinism
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Expiring Vozhd’ and Power Struggle
Postwar Restoration
Economic Reconstruction
Social Policy
Into the Cold War
Crisis of Late Stalinism
Big Three at Yalta (Feb 1945)
Potsdam (July-Aug 1945)
Children Celebrate the October
Revolution (1947)
Vorkuta Labor Camp (1946)
1950 November Parade: Bulganin,
Stalin, Malenkov, Beria, Molotov
The “Near Dacha”: Main Dining
Room
Office in the “Near Dacha”
Stalin’s Bedroom in the “Near
Dacha”
The Great Stalin: Banner of
Friendship of the Soviet Peoples
Stalin: Women’s Progress (1950)
Stalin: Peace to the Peoples (1952)
Stalin: Reader, Thinker (1949)
Thank you, Dear Stalin, for a
Happy Childhood (1950)