Khrushchev Successes And Failures

Analyze the successes and failures of Soviet policies towards Germany and the eastern European satellite states during the regimes of Khrushchev and Brezhnev

In order to analyze the successes and failures of Soviet policies towards Germany and the eastern European satellite states during the regimes of Khrushchev and Brezhnev one must choose eastern European satellites that were affected by the Soviet policies most and had a direct relationship with Moscow during the reigns of these two leaders: Khrushchev (1953 – 1964) and Brezhnev (1964 – 1982). In this case, I decided to choose Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as eastern communist states as there were some important government changes with which the Soviets had to deal. One should also acknowledge that
However, Soviet leaders worried that the liberalization of the government had gone too far. Thus, Rakosi was placed back into the post of Prime Minister. The indecisiveness of the Soviets in their policies led to an unrest situation in Hungary. Now, on the one hand, there was Rakosi who attempted to maintain his hard-line, Stalinist policies. On the other hand, there was Nagy who used the de-Stalinization campaign to push for reform. People started to revolt and the Soviet ambassador requested an intervention of troops from Khrushchev. The request was ignored as first as Khrushchev wanted to have peace negotiations. However, on November 1 when Nagy announced that Hungary was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact and declared Hungary's neutrality and appealed to the United Nations for recognition of this neutrality there was no doubt that Soviet troops would be deployed. On November 1, 1956, Soviet troops entered Hungary with the mission of crushing the revolution. Thus, the policy of “the thaw” turned out to be failure as the Soviets themselves did not pursue the reform by sending their troops to Hungary. This means that Khrushchev as a leader