Shekarloo

The War Scare 1926-27 Shekarloo

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject History - Asia, grade: B+ (2), The American Central University (Department of History), course: Russian Revolutions, language: English, comment: Diese Arbeit ist eine Analyse der sogenannten "war scare" Krise in der Sowjetunion, die in 1926/27 statt fand. Eine kontroversesThema dass in der historiography wenig erforscht ist und wo die Meinungen der Historiker auseinander gehen. Die Fragen beziehen sich darauf, ob die "war scare" Krise authentisch war, oder ob es von den sowjetischen Machthabern (Trotzki, Stalin) für ihre innenpolitischen Machtkämpfe manipuliert wurde. , abstract: In the summer of 1927, the government and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fell victim to an acute war panic, which became known as "the War Scare". Many high-ranking Soviet politicians expressed their fear that war was likely to break out at any moment. The political leadership worried about a concerted effort by a united imperialist world to invade and destroy the young and fragile Soviet state. Frantic steps were taken to alarm and mobilize the party, the Soviet people, and the constituent parties of the Communist International (Comintern) to defend the "socialist fatherland." A massive propaganda machinery was conducted with urgent appeals to the Soviet population, to the proletarians of other countries, and to the colonized people of Asia, to prepare for "war against war." In the historiography of the early Soviet Union, the War Scare is still a disputed topic among scholars. Many argue that Soviet politicians manipulated the danger of war in the course of a factional struggle in the ruling Communist party for their own advantage. Although it was Stalin, who ultimately exploited the War Scare more effectively and derived the greatest benefit from it, he was not the only one. It was Bukharin, the head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern), who initiated it. Moreover, the Opposition consisting of Tro