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Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West of England

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Synopsis

 

Stalin's Foreign Policy:

This podcast examines Stalin's foreign policy in the interwar years. Dr Kocho-Williams examines Stalin's foreign policy aims during the 1930s, discussing the failure of collective security and the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The podcast covers the Soviet Union's conduct of foreign policy using both diplomacy and the Communist International.

 

Contents:

1. The aims of Soviet foreign policy under Stalin, 1928-1941
2. Collective Security and its failure
3. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War
4. The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939
5. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941

Further Reading

 

Boyce, R and Maiolo, J (eds). The Origins of World War Two: the Debate Continues
Carr, E.H. German-Soviet Relations between the Two World Wars
Godoretsky, G. (ed). Soviet Foreign Policy in Perspective, 1917-1991
Haslam, J. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933-39
Hochman, J. The Soviet Union and the Failure of Collective Security, 1934-1938
Nation, R.C., Black Earth, Red Star: A history of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1992
Ragsdale, H. The Soviets, the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War II
Roberts, G. The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941
Roberts, G. The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler

Timeline

 

Timeline of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1928-1941

1928: ‘Third Period’ launched; doctrine of Social Fascism
1929: USSR signs Kellog-Briand Pact
Sept 1934: USSR joins league of Nations
May 1935: Pacts with France and Czechoslovakia
August 1935: Comintern supports Popular Fronts
1936 – 1939: Spanish Civil War
Nov 1936: Anti-Comintern pact of Germany & Japan (Italy signs 1937)
Sep 1938: Munich Conference (USSR excluded)
April 1939: Litvinov proposes triple Military alliance – Britain, France and USSR
May 1939: Litvinov dismissed; Molotov becomes Foreign Commissar
August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact concluded
June 1941: Germany invades USSR

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