Khrushchev and East West relations
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- Created on: 24-04-20 13:16
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- Topic 9
- Khrushchev's secret speech
- Attributed Stalins mistakes and misuse of gulags and the secret police
- Calculated risk by him as he could be heavily judged
- Discouraged Stalins 'cult of personality'
- Criticised Stalins several violations of socialist legality
- West was dissapointed that De-Stalinization did not lead to bigger liberal privillage
- Was Stalins late governor and was seen as a traitor to fellow late senates
- Blamed everything on Stalin instead of all senior members of the Stalin rule
- Did not mention the massive state violence and famine or repression of intelectuals
- Hungarian uprising
- Causes of the uprising
- Thought that the UN would help
- They were poor and resources were being sent to Russia
- They were Patriotic and hated Russian rule
- De-Stalinization caused out of control behaviour
- Course of events
- 23rd October- Students, workers and soldiers riot and pull down Stalins statue
- 24th October- Imre Nagy takes over
- 28th October- Russian army pulled out of Hungary
- 29th October- Government introduced freedom of speech and religion
- 4th November- 1000 tanks came into Budapest and obver 4000 Hungarians died while fighting the Russians
- Consequence of the Uprising
- The 'thaw' in the Cold war was over
- Janos Kadar took over from Imre Nagy
- Nagy was executed
- 200,000 Hungarian refugees fled to Austria
- Russia stayed in control and no other riots happened for 12 years
- Causes of the uprising
- The Polish uprising
- Workers demanded 1. higher wages for industrial workers 2. Greater freedom for the Catholic church 3. To end collectivisation of agriculture
- 28th of June the workers strike and then martial law was imposed on Poland
- 23rd October Gomulka agrees that Poland will remain communist and stay a member of the Warsaw pact
- Austrian State Treaty
- Removed a lot of tension between the powers
- All 4 powers agreed to withdraw from Austria
- 1955 Austria adapted their policy of neutrality
- The west withdrew military from Western Germany
- Khrushchev's secret speech
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