How did Stalin get rid of his rivals
- Created by: Isabel Steele
- Created on: 27-05-15 07:32
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- How did Stalin get rid of his rivals?
- Stage One: power base & Trotsky
- a) Stalin was GENERAL SECRETARY
- Only accepted those loyal to Stalin
- These voted against Trotsky in all meetings- isolated.
- Only accepted those loyal to Stalin
- b) 1923-5 United with Kamenev and Zinoviev against Trotsky
- K&Z accused Trotsky of forming a faction against NEP
- Ridiculed Trotsky's idea of 'World Revolution'
- Stalin promoted 'Socialism in One Country'
- c) Lenin's Funeral
- Trotsky had been ill and missed the funeral (fault of Stalin?)
- Stalin turned event into huge propaganda
- Stalin= chief mourner
- Trotsky not even there
- d) Cult of Lenin
- Stalin decreed: New leader should be the closest to Lenin
- He created a cult (Leninism)
- Published fake picture of himself and Lenin (BFFs!!!)
- e) Foundation of Leninism
- People only read what Stalin agreed with (because he wrote it)
- Book of simplified ideas of Lenin published by Stalin
- f) Suppression of Lenin's will
- In 1923 Lenin wrote that Stalin should be removed
- Trotsky highlighted as perfect leader
- K&Z persuaded Central Committee to not publish it
- 1925: Trotsky removed from Red Army and Commissar of War
- 1926: Trotsky expelled from Politburo
- a) Stalin was GENERAL SECRETARY
- Stage Two: Kamenev and Zinoviev 1926-7
- 1. K&Z decided that they didn't like the NEP and sided with Trotsky
- 2. Stalin united with Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky against them
- 3. K,Z&T accused of forming faction
- 4. All three shouted down by Central Committee
- 5. Stalin launched campaign against them
- Stage Three: Bukharin 1928-9
- In 1927 there was shortage of grain
- many people were against NEP
- Stalin turned against B and NEP
- Adopted policy of growing industry quickly
- B removed from politburo and Party in 1929
- In 1927 there was shortage of grain
- Stage Four: actually getting rid of them
- Trotsky exiled in 1929
- Trotsky murdered in Mexico in 1940
- Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin shot in purges 1936-8
- Stage One: power base & Trotsky
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