HI109 Lecture 7: HI109 WEEK 7 FEB. 27.docx
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Hi109 week 7 february 27, 2014: popular front and appeasement, shift in soviet policy, popular front as a response to fascism, rejection of far right politics, rejection of militarism, stalins worries in 1934: Japenese expansionism: feelers to the west- ussr joins the league of nations, rejection of revolution- stalin says he will not spread communism. Hires a new foreign politics minister: worries about fascism. Worried that if he doesn"t make friends with the west, he worried that france and england will go towards germany and go against ussr: wants an eastern locarno pack- wants a permanent boundaries made for. Europe, he wants germany contained: reaction among liberals and socialists, suspicion of class politics, defense of individualism, social reform, popular front in france, communists and socialists bury the hatchet, fear of a far right coup, shift to center. Joint reaction to fascism: election of leon blum, may 1936, popular front parties, captured by germany during ww2 but becomes president of.
