[Rebuilding Europe, II: The East, 1945-89]
  
Before class
  
      * Read Palmer, 869-875
 
      * Key terms
  
	people's democracies			
	iron curtain					
	Marshall Joseph Tito			
	Cominform						
	Solidarity
	Nikita Khrushchev
	Brezhnev doctrine
	Dr. Zhivago
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn						
	Sputnik

      * Key questions


1. How, and in what stages, did communism spread in Europe during and immediately 
following World War II?  What major political and economic changes took place under 
the new regimes? 

2. What was the political atmosphere in the Soviet Union during Stalin's last years? Since 1953? 

3. Summarize postwar Soviet economic developments.  What persistent problems continued 
to trouble the Russian economy? 
  
4. What major changes were discernible in the Soviet satellites after Stalin's death? 

5. "The treatment of Poland and Hungary in 1956, of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and of 
Poland in the 1980s served notice of the limits to which freedom would be tolerated in 
the satellites."  Comment. 

[Rebuilding Europe, II: The East, 1945-89]
In class
  
      * Outline
  
	 1. USSR 

	 2. eastern Europe: three eras 
  
		a. Stalinist 
		b. transitional 
		c. crisis and collapse

      * Key terms
  
	Nikita Khrushchev				
	KGB
	peaceful coexistence
	Leonid Brezhnev					
	"years of stagnation"
	people's democracies			
	Warsaw Pact
	COMECON
	Joseph Tito
	Brezhnev Doctrine
	Solidarity

* Key quotation

O great Stalin, O leader of the peoples,
Thou who broughtest man to birth.
Thou who fructifies the earth,
Thou who restorest to centuries,
Thou who makest bloom the spring,
Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords...
Thou, splendour of my spring, O thou,
Sun reflected by millions of hearts.

A. O. Avidenko, Hymn to Stalin