How did Stalin maintain power?
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- HOW DID STALIN MAINTAIN POWER?
- Not the Purges but in the timeline
- Established as Vozhd in 1929
- Instruments of control
- 1933-1934
- Centralised all law enforcement agencies under the NKVD which he controlled
- The Stalin Enrolment
- 1934
- People owed him their positions in the party
- Stalin Constitution
- 1936
- No classes and a guaruntee of basic freedom
- Partty members could do what they liked
- Purges
- Rykov's 1932 execution gave him motive
- Post-Kirov purges
- Filled influential positions with his supporters
- Great Purge
- End of Bolshevik opposition
- Kamanev and Zinoviev killed in 1936
- Bukharin, Ryutin and Tomsky executed in 1938
- Purge of the Armed Forces
- 1937
- Supporters within the army
- Cost him greatly as it led to a poor army
- Yezhovschina
- Forced Five-Year Plans through labour camps
- Avoided the blame by blaming Yezhov
- 1937-1938
- Nomenklatura
- Gained priviledge from working with Stalin
- Totalitarianism
- Tsardom was already a one-ruler political structure so the people were used to it
- Democratic centralism
- Seen as the state in human form
- Command economy led to complete state control
- Cult of Personality
- Propaganda
- Shakespeare and Einstein were Russian
- Russians found America
- Konsomol (Communist Youth) meant he had young supporters
- His picture was carried at processions
- Propaganda
- Foreign Policy
- Encouraged resistance to Japan and avoided occupation
- Wasn't seen well outside of Russia
- Anti-Comintern Pact
- 1938 Munich Agreement
- Didn't get collective security against Germany through the League of Nations
- Nazi-Soviet Pact meant that Russia regained lost territories
- Not the Purges but in the timeline
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