JOSEF STALIN AND THE RAPALLO SPIRIT IN THE END OF 1920TH-BEGINNING OF 1930's
it is described in the article that the increasing centralization of the Stalin system heightened influence of the general secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevic) upon soviet foreign policy concerning Germany. It is mentioned that Stalin's devotion to class struggle and world revolution intensified tension in relations between USSR and Germany. In the beginning of 30th I. Stalin rejected revolution plans of Communist Party of Germany and Comintern and, being guided by the state interests, tried to restore lost trust of the Germans and to reinforce soviet-German cooperation.