2b. Events in the Soviet Union (1945–1953)
The ATLs on this page examines the political and economic developments in the USSR between 1945 and 1953. “Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.”― John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History Stalin's paranoia at home was also a factor in the developing Cold War with the West as he sought to ensure that the Soviet Union would be secure;...