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The Ideological Bases of Soviet Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Paul E. Zinner
Paul E. Zinner
Affiliation:
The Russian Research Center, Harvard University
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Foreign policy, the very existence of which Soviet leaders admitted only hesitatingly during the green years of the Revolution—although they availed themselves of it as an indispensable tool from the moment they gained power—has become a primary weapon in safeguarding the interests of the “Socialist Fatherland” and propagating the struggle against “world capitalism.”

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World Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , July 1952 , pp. 488 - 511
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1952

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1 The author gratefully acknowledges the generous assistance of the Russian Research Center, Harvard University, which made this study possible.

2 On the task of studying the history of the Stalinist foreign policy of the Soviet Union, Voprosy Istorii, No. 4, April 1950, translated in the Current Digest of the Soviet Press, II, No. 31, September 16, 1950.

3 Ibid.

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14 For a discussion of this problem see Handler, M. S., “The New Pattern of Soviet Aggression,” New York Times Magazine, October 1, 1950, p. 32.Google Scholar

15 This, of course, does not mean that the Soviet Union has abandoned hope and effort to reunite Germany under “proper” conditions.

16 The nature of the Soviet peace campaign is perhaps most sharply defined by the following excerpt from the “Program of the Comintern”: “There is a glaring contradiction between the imperialists' policy of piling up armaments and their hypocritical talk about peace. There is no such contradiction, however, between the Soviet governments' preparations for defense and for revolutionary war and a consistent peace policy.” International Press Correspondence, vai, No. 84 (November 28, 1928), 1590.

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