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- Party Opposition to Khrushchev's policies
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- By 1962, opposition was strong
- 1964 Khrushchev fell in a bloodless palace revolution - Communist colleagues saw de-stalinization as a dangerous threat to the dictatoria authority party - Khrushchev had to go! - His policy towards the West was erratic and ultimately unsuccessful |
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Leonid Brezhnev
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- The S.U. began a period of stagnation and limited "re-stalinization"
- He took over in 1964 - Started talking "quietly" of Stalin's "good points" and ignoring his crimes - In 1960s, brought modest liberalization and more consumer goods to eastern Europe - Somewhat greater national autonomy was created, esp. in Poland and Romania |
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Khrushchev's Berlin Wall
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- 1958 he ordered the Western Allies to evacuate West Berlin w/i 6 mos and the allies reaffirmed their unity there
- In 1961 he built a wall between East and West Berlin, as China relations deteriorated, in clear violation of existing access agreements between the Great Powers - JFK acquiesced the construction |
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Khrushchev's Cuban Fiasco
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- In 1962, he ordered missiles w/ nuclear warheads installed in Fidel Castro's Cuba
- JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba, and he agreed to remove the Soviet missiles in return for American pledges to leave Castro's regime alone. - He looked like a bumbling buffoon and his influence declined more rapidly after the Cuban Fiasco |
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Czechoslovak Communist Party
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- Gained a majority of reform elements in Jan. 1968
- Voted out Stalinist leader in favor of Alexander Dubcek |
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Alexander Dubcek
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- S.U. troops suddenly occupied Czech.
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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- Experience in humanizing communism came to an end in Czech
- Brezhnev decarled the doctrin to which the S.U. and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need - 1968 invasion of Czech was the crucial event of the Brezhnev Era until 1985 - The invasion demonstrated the determination of the ruling elite to maintain the status quo througout the Soviet bloc |
