Stalins attitude to foreign powers

Question 1

Why did Stalin not like the Comintern?

Answer 1

it was a reminder of the failed dreams of achieving ‘permanent world revolution’

Question 2

Who was Stalins chief representative in foreign affairs and their deputy?

Answer 2

Georgii Chicherin

Litvinov

Question 3

Why were Chicherin and Litvinov useful to Stalin?

Answer 3

They were useful in maintaining ‘safe’ relations with foreign powers , especially Germany

Question 4

When was the Chinese Communist Party (CPP) formed in hope to carry through a communist revolution in China?

Answer 4

1921

Question 5

Instead of the CCP, who did Stalin prefer to back?

Answer 5

the GMD the revolutionary nationalist movement

Question 6

Why did Stalin back the GMD as opposed to the CPP?

Answer 6

as he believed they were more likely to bring stability to a key strategic area on Russia’s eastern borders

Question 7

When did the GMD massacre striking workers in Canton and established a military dictatorship?

Answer 7

March 1926

Question 8

When did the GMD viscously suppress a communist workers’ revolt in Shanghai an thousands of workers were killed?

Answer 8

April 1927

Question 9

Where in April 1927 China did the GMD viciously suppress a communist workers’ revolt ?

Answer 9

In Shanghai

Question 10

When did the GMD massacre striking workers in the city of Wuhan where c30,000 workers were killed?

Answer 10

1927

Question 11

How many workers were killed by the GMD in 1927 after striking in the city of Wuhan?

Answer 11

c30,000

Question 12

In responding to events in China 1925-1927 what was Stalins concern for?

Answer 12

for Russia, not spreading world revolution

Question 13

What did Stalin pressurise the Politburo into doing in regards to China?

Answer 13

accepting the GMD as a member of the Comintern

Question 14

How did Stalin justify not supporting the CPP?

Answer 14

He said it was their fault for moving away from supporting urban workers and focusing on the peasantry

Question 15

Who criticised Stalins betrayal to the CPP?

Answer 15

Trotsky and the Left Opposition

Question 16

What happened in the Communist Party Congress of December 1927?

Answer 16

• Stalin was criticised over actions in China

- Trotsky was expelled from the party

Question 17

When was the Treaty of Berlin?

Answer 17

1926

Question 18

When was the Treaty of Rapallo signed which was the first breakthrough in ‘normalising’ relations between the USSR and the wider world?

Answer 18

1922

Question 19

What did the German government state the Treaty of Berlin was?

Answer 19

it was adapting he German-Russio agreement of Rapallo to a ‘new political situation’

Question 20

What did Litvinov the deputy of the foreign minister say about the Berlin agreement?

Answer 20

that it was ‘an amplification of the Treaty of Rapallo’

Question 21

What did Article 2 of the Treaty of Berlin between Russia and Germany say?

Answer 21

that if either country was attacked by a third power the other would remain neutral in the conflict

Question 22

What did Article 3 of the Treaty of Berlin between Russia and Germany say?

Answer 22

that the other would not join any economic boycott that night be launched against the other

Question 23

How did the USSR benefit from the relation with Germany in 1926?

Answer 23

They received large financial credits from German banks