industrialization plans. Stalin had planed for war but he had also played the diplomatic card to improve his chances as well.Stalin had attempted many dfferent diplomatic solutions with both the Allied and Axis power and tried to delay the Soviet Unions involvement in the war as long as possible. Stalin absolutely did not want to involve his country his country in the war unless he absolutely had to and even then he wanted to manoeuver it so the Red Army would only play a supporting role. Even long before the war, Stalin carefullly distinguished between the "aggressive" powers (Germany, Italy, japan) and the "non-aggressive" powers (France, Britain, USA, Canada). For the early part of the 1930's Stalin really didn't have a firm foreign policy. The only thing that his foreign policy did at the time was look out for the Soviet Union and nothing else. This can be best understood from an excerpt from one of his speeches to the sixteenth congress: We do not want a single foot of foreign territory, but we will not surrender a single inch of our territory either.' this policy did not change until the late 1930's when the real threat of a Second World War became apparent. Stalin now wanted to create a firm foreign policy to better open up dialogues with neighboring countries as the rush was on to create alliances to better prepare for the imminent threat of war. The policy that was created was one that stressed defense as well as opening up and maintaining relations with other countries.The tasks of the Party in foreign policy were:1-To pursue the policy of peace and of the consolidation of business relation with all countries.2-To observe the greatest caution and not to allow our country to be drawn into conflicts by war provocateurs, who were in the habit of getting others to save them when they got in over there head. 3-To strengthen in every way the military might of the...
