ARTS1271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hungarian Revolution Of 1956, Brezhnev Doctrine, Warsaw Pact

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Humanities
• Course: ARTS1271
• Professor: Anne O'Brien

Document Summary

Communism and europe: collapse and aftermath: why did it collapse, how did it survive for so long, reconstructed world politics, rapidly, unexpected, peaceful. Why it collapsed: inevitable, (cid:858) e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e(cid:859) fro(cid:373) (cid:373)id-(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s, long & short-term factors: not inevitable, gorbachev not an island. Ussr as a superpower: borders expanded, rebuilt eastern europe, communism imposed in poland, Hungary, romania, east germany by red army: a degree of genuine support, a means of living, other places had original communist groups. Hungary 1956: de-stalinisation 1953 after death, ^ also response to resistance after death (immediate revolution . Korea: new spheres of influence e. g. middle east, latin america, two major uprisings, shattered communism in west (british) Cold war politics from above: negotiations at gov. level, d tente: the easing of hostility/strained relations, both wanted to avoid war, usa most driving internal problems (race/women), overstretched (vietnam)