Two camp theory

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The two-camp theory has been advocated by US and USSR leaders since September 30, 1947 .

It had become more and more evident after the end of the Second World War and the gradual breakdown of the anti-Hitler coalition .

It was initially formulated by Harry S. Truman in his Truman Doctrine of March 12, 1947. In September 1947, Andrei Alexandrowitsch Schdanow gave a speech , who in turn represented the division of the world into two different camps from the Soviet point of view.

At a conference in September 1947, Zhdanov (at the time a member of the Politburo of the CPSU ) formulated the two-camp theory, which essentially contained the following basic statements:

• The US and its allies are imperialists and warmongers.
• The Marshall Plan served imperialist expansion and the enslavement of Europe .
• The world is divided into an imperialist, anti-democratic and an anti-imperialist, democratic camp.

In the context of the two-camp theory, the other camp was assumed to have a wrong understanding of democracy .

Elements of a real political implementation of the two-camp theory are, for example:

• the US Marshall Plan (ERP)
• the active containment policy of the USA
• the founding of the Kominform on the initiative of the CPSU
• the establishment of COMECON on the initiative of the USSR
• the creation of NATO
• the establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization

The two-camp theory stands at the beginning of the Cold War . They were abandoned in a slow process from the mid-1950s. As a result of decolonization , more and more third and neutral actors ( non-aligned states ) emerged who no longer fit into the two-camp theory. On the Soviet side, Khrushchev no longer assumed an inevitable war between capitalism and communism, but wars between the capitalist states, which would break capitalism.

literature

• Сизов С. Г. : К вопросу об организации кинопроката в Сибири во времена "ждановщины" .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} examio GmbH: Two-Camp Theory - Reorganization of the World after 1945. Retrieved on March 4, 2019 .