​Moscow Paper

Analysis of how Stalin consolidated power and shaped postwar Soviet domestic and foreign policy.

The Soviet role in shaping the UN Charter and its vision of postwar international order.

Evaluation of Stalin’s negotiations with Roosevelt and Churchill on postwar Europe, Germany, and Eastern Europe.

How the USSR began establishing satellite regimes in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.

Exploration of how military success enhanced Stalin’s domestic authority and shaped Soviet nationalism.

Political control and division of Germany, with emphasis on the Soviet zone and future tensions.

Party politics and administration shifts from wartime governance to postwar order.

How the state used media, education, and art to shape public memory of the war and legitimize the regime.

Political actions that signaled the emerging conflict with the West—nuclear rivalry, espionage, and ideological confrontation.

Political decisions regarding postwar reconstruction, labor mobilization, and resource allocation.