2.3.1/2 Nature of Soviet Foreign Policy, Role of Ideology

Question 1

2 primary aims

Answer 1

• worldwide revolution (long-term)
• domestic security + stability (short-term to ensure survival of long-term global goal

fundamentally incompatible

Question 2

1919 creation of comintern lenin Q

Answer 2

lenin “we are internationalists” –> evidence of worldwide aspirations

Question 3

Treaty Brest-Litovsk

Answer 3

• poor relations btwn Rus + Ger though Rus holding out for socialist revolution in Ger

Question 4

Trade Agreements

Answer 4

• 1922 treaty of rapallo - partner w/ Ger to facilitate economic relations, protect economically BUT was a capitalist state - not good for worldwide revolution

Question 5

Non-Aggression Pacts

Answer 5

• sino-soviet n-a pact August 1937, prevented open war w/ China, April 1941 Jap-Sov n-a pact
  = prevent war on 2 fornts for USSR - example of sov foreign policy achieving its aim

Question 6

overall assessment of whether it did or did not influence foreign policy

Answer 6

foreign policy was arguably the least aligned - they never expanded into global revolution, the crux of the initial revolution