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Soviet Leaders A comparison of the domestic and foreign policies of major soviet leaders. by Matthew Elton Domestic Policy: Established communist regimes in Eastern Europe (1946) Led the Soviet Union Blocked trade and travel between East Berlin and West Berlin. Closed all roads, railroads, and Foreign Policy: Didn’t trust the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. After World War II, Stalin wanted communist allies to help protect the Soviet Union from an invasion. Violated the Yalta Stalin (1928-1953) Nikita Khrushchev (1956-1963) Domestic Policy: Policy of “Destalinization” Tries to change the harsh policies implemented during Stalin’s rule. Freed political Foreign Policy: Based relations with the United States upon “peaceful coexistence.” Believed that although the United States and the Soviet Union are Leonid Brezhnev (1963-1982) Domestic Policy: Brezhnev Doctrine: The Soviet Union will do whatever is necessary to stop the spread of democracy in the Soviet bloc. Foreign Policy: Crushed the revolution attempt in Czechoslovakia. Improved relations with the United States. Made an agreement with
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A comparison of the domestic and foreign policies of major leaders of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet LeadersA comparison of the domestic and foreign policies of major soviet leaders.
by Matthew Elton
Domestic Policy: Established communist regimes
in Eastern Europe (1946) Led the Soviet Union Blocked trade and travel between
East Berlin and West Berlin. Closed all roads, railroads, and
airports in Berlin. Isolated democratic West Berlin
inside East Germany.
Foreign Policy: Didn’t trust the United States,
France, Britain, and Germany. After World War II, Stalin
wanted communist allies to help protect the Soviet Union from an invasion.
Violated the Yalta Agreement by not allowing Eastern European countries to have free elections.
Angered Eastern Europeans moving west (1948).
Stalin(1928-1953)
Nikita Khrushchev(1956-1963)
Domestic Policy: Policy of “Destalinization” Tries to change the harsh policies
implemented during Stalin’s rule. Freed political prisoners. Removed censorship laws.
Foreign Policy: Based relations with the United
States upon “peaceful coexistence.”
Believed that although the United States and the Soviet Union are very different, there is no reason why they cannot be at peace with one another.
Leonid Brezhnev(1963-1982)
Domestic Policy: Brezhnev Doctrine: The Soviet
Union will do whatever is necessary to stop the spread of democracy in the Soviet bloc.
Foreign Policy: Crushed the revolution attempt in
Czechoslovakia. Improved relations with the
United States. Made an agreement with the
United States to limit nuclear production if the United States does the same.
Mikhail Gorbachev(1985-1991)
Domestic Policy: More moderate/liberal minded.
Foreign Policy: Began summit talks with U.S.
President Reagan to improve relations and renegotiate arms limitation treaties.
