
Published online:
31 October 2013
Published in print:
30 December 2008
Online ISBN:
9780300161281
Print ISBN:
9780300110661
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The Virtues of Moderation The Virtues of Moderation
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The Politburo of the 17th Party Congress The Politburo of the 17th Party Congress
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Ordzhonikidze and Molotov: Correcting the Second Five-year Plan Ordzhonikidze and Molotov: Correcting the Second Five-year Plan
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Stalin and Kirov Stalin and Kirov
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The Politburo Versus the Nkvd The Politburo Versus the Nkvd
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Chapter
3 A Facade of Liberalization 1934
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Pages
85–126
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Published:December 2008
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Khlevniuk, Oleg V., 'A Facade of Liberalization 1934', in Nora Favorov (ed.), Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (New Haven, CT , 2008; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 31 Oct. 2013), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300110661.003.0003, accessed 16 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the factors behind the move toward more moderate policies in 1934 and considers the role played by Sergei Kirov in these initiatives. It suggests that foreign policy considerations—the threat from Fascist Germany and the desire to conclude an anti-Fascist pact with France and its allies—largely determined the direction of Stalinist policy. On 19 December 1933 the Politburo adopted a highly classified resolution concerning the possibility of membership in the League of Nations and concluded regional mutual defense pacts with a number of Western countries in case of German aggression.
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