CONTENDERS FOR POWER
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 10-04-17 10:03
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- Contenders for power
- Stalin
- Called the 'grey blur' meaning there was nothing outstanding about him
- Played a minor role in the October Revolution and Russian Civil War
- Peasant upbringing-understood many Russians
- Reputation for loyalty to Lenin
- Lenin's final decision that Stalin should be sacked was not widely known
- Trotsky
- Most heroic of contenders
- Planned and led the October Revolution and commanded Red Army in the Civil War
- Radical vision of future of Russia
- Extremely talented and knew how to address a crowd when giving a speech
- Lenin's Testament praised him as an 'outstanding member'
- People reluctant to trust him to trust him as he only joined the party in 1917
- Bukharin
- Youngest of the contenders
- Lacked Trotsky's arrogance
- Leading advocate of NEP
- Lenin's Testament criticised his ideas for not being 'fully Marxist'
- Zinoviev and Kamenev
- Lenin's closest friends
- Among the first members of the Bolshevik Party
- Publicly criticised Lenin's plans
- Avoided fighting in the Civil war-surrounded by prostitues
- Stalin
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