The Spread of Soviet-Backed Communism Across Eastern Europe after 1945

The Spread of Soviet-Backed Communism Across easterly europium after 1945In seeking to provide an answer to the question, Was the mobilise of Soviet-backed communism inevitable across Eastern Europe after 1945?, I would standardised to point to the words of a contemporary specialist. At the remainder of World war II, R. R. Betts, the Masaryk Professor of Central European History at capital of the United Kingdom University, asserted that much of the revolution in central and eastern Europe is native and due to the efforts of the peoples and their own leaders . . . making it clear that horizontal if the Soviet Union had not been so near and so powerful, new changes would have come at the end of so destructive and insurgent a war as that which ended in 1945 (Betts 212, in Mazower, 255). though Betts points simply to the war and native efforts as the essential impetus for positive solutions where many points can be made implicating pre-war issues and outside intervention (or e scape thereof) in the same causal fashion, the thrust of his argument is what I would like to echo in my paper. The radical situation following World contend II in Eastern Europe was untenable and called almost uniformly for a radical solution. However, that the solution was necessarily Soviet-backed communism is not amply supported by the facts. A radical solution? Yes. Authoritarianism? quite an likely. Soviet-backed communism? Very probable, but by no means inevitable. magic spell there is much evidence and scholarship to support the deterministic viewpoint implied by the principal query, it seems a nave view of history to imply that what happened absolutely could not have happened any other way. To respond in kind to the simplistic discourse of in... ...ore or less might not have found a marginally different path at some point along the way. An argument of inevitability is not fitted to understand the subtleties of history.Works CitedBetts, R. R. ed. Central and South Ea st Europe, 1945-1948. London, 1949.Lewis, Paul. Central Europe Since 1945. London Longman, 1994.Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent Europes 20th Century. London Penguin, 1999.Roberts, Geoffrey. Moscow and the Marshall Plan Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947 Europe-Asia Studies 468, Soviet and East European History (1994), 1371-1386.Rothschild, Joseph and Nancy M. Wingfield. Return to Diversity A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II. 3rd ed. Oxford Oxford UP, 2000.Swain, Geoffrey and Nigel Swain. Eastern Europe Since 1945. 2nd ed. London Macmillan, 1998.