Ideological debates and issues in the leadership struggle
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- Ideological debates and issues in the leadership struggle
- Ideological debates
- NEP
- End?
- Left of the party: Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky
- Wanted rapid industrialisation
- This required the militarisation of labour to recieve more grain from the peasants to pay for industrialisation
- Wanted rapid industrialisation
- Deeply troubled by its outward manifestations
- Creation of a superclass, increase in indulgences such as drunkeness and prostitution
- Far from ideal socialism
- Creation of a superclass, increase in indulgences such as drunkeness and prostitution
- Left of the party: Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky
- Keep going?
- Bukharin, leader of the right of the party
- Wanted peasants to become richer so they spent more on consumer goods
- Would lead to the growth of the manufacturing industry
- Wanted to avoid conflict w/ peasants as it could lead to economic collapse and endanger the communist state
- Wanted peasants to become richer so they spent more on consumer goods
- Bukharin, leader of the right of the party
- End?
- Industrialisation
- Seen as essential to creating a lare proleteriat class to build socialism
- Unanimous agreement to industrialise
- NEP
- How Stalin became party leader
- Positions in key party positions
- Party secretary
- Ogburo and Secretariat
- Control of party organisation
- Control of party membership
- Z & K's vote of no confidence in Stalin failed
- trotsky defeated in teh 13th party congress by "well-informed Stalinist delegates"
- Policies
- 1925 SIOC attracted Bukharin (NEP) - new alliance
- 1928- Stalin turned against NEP - advocated for left wing policies
- Success in the 1929 14th part congress
- 1928- Stalin turned against NEP - advocated for left wing policies
- 1925 SIOC attracted Bukharin (NEP) - new alliance
- Manipulation of opponents
- Trotsky did not attend Lenin's funeral and Stalin made a spectacle of this
- Greatly damaged prestige
- Stalin portrayed himself as Lenin's disciple and rightful successor
- Triumvirate with Zinoviev and Kamenev
- Aimed to suppress Lenin's testament
- Showed favour to Trotsky
- Mention of Z and K's opposition to the Oct Rev
- Believed that Stalin did not pose a real threat
- Aimed to suppress Lenin's testament
- 1924- Z & K attacked Trotskys loyalty and Trotsky retaliated in the 'Lessons of October' where he criticised their Oct actions, Stalin Watched the Left wing tear itself apart
- Z & K allowed Stalin to bring more of his supporters into key positions - distracted by Trotsky
- Trotsky did not attend Lenin's funeral and Stalin made a spectacle of this
- Positions in key party positions
- The outcome of other contenders
- 1926 -Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev joined forces in "united opposition" and planned a demonstration in Moscow
- This went against the 1921 ban of factions
- They were accused of 'factionalism' and expelled from the party
- This went against the 1921 ban of factions
- Bukharin outvoted by Stalin's supporters in the 1929 14th party congress although he raised good points about the NEP
- Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky were expelled from the party
- 1926 -Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev joined forces in "united opposition" and planned a demonstration in Moscow
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- Socialism in one country
- Posited by Stalin in 1924
- main premise was that Russia should act as an example of the perfect comminist state and should lead by example
- Highly optimistic
- World revolution was not likely in the immediate future
- main premise was that Russia should act as an example of the perfect comminist state and should lead by example
- Appealed to nationalism and patriotism
- Very flexible doctrine - leaders could say what was best to achieve socialism at any given time
- Gained support from the right as it appeared to support the NEP
- Posited by Stalin in 1924
- Permanent revolution
- Stalin claimed that Trotsky did not believe in Russia
- Trotsky felt the Russian workforce was too small and economically premature for the communist revolution to succeed
- Russia needed the more developed and industrialised european countries to stage their own revolutions
- In the mean time, farms would be collectivised and people sent to compulsory labour units organised along military lines
- This would create a base for socialism to be established
- In the mean time, farms would be collectivised and people sent to compulsory labour units organised along military lines
- Russia needed the more developed and industrialised european countries to stage their own revolutions
- Socialism in one country
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