Stalin's Foreign Policy

Alastair Kocho-Williams, University of the West of England.

This podcast examines Stalin's foreign policy in the interwar years. Dr Kocho-Williams examines Stalin's foreign policy aims during the 1930s, discussing the failure of collective security and the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The podcast covers the Soviet Union's conduct of foreign policy using both diplomacy and the Communist International.

Contents:

1. The aims of Soviet foreign policy under Stalin, 1928-1941
2. Collective Security and its failure
3. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War
4. The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939
5. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941

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