Power Struggle
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- Power Struggle
- Trotsky
- Inherent weaknesses
- Rich
- Jewish
- Arrogant
- Urban
- Failures
- Mensheviks
- Rejected Lenins Beliefs
- Support of young communists rather than established
- Mensheviks
- Successes
- Red Army Support
- Inherent weaknesses
- Stalin
- Inherent strengths
- Peasant
- Georgian
- Successes
- Support of higher party members
- Backed Lenin
- Power to advance positions due to bureaucratic positions
- Not extreme left or right - central
- Peoples Commissar forNationalities
- Georgian
- Liason Officer Poliburo & Orgburo
- Head of Workers and Peasants Inspectorate
- General Secretary of Bolshevik Party
- Control of Party organisation and membership
- Inherent strengths
- Right Wing- BUKHARIN, Tomsky and Rykov
- Left Wing- TROTSKY, Zinoviev and Kamenev
- Centre- STALIN
- Socialism in one country VS Permanent revolution
- Left Permanent Revolution TROTSKY
- No socialist country could exist alone.
- Revolution was not a single event but a permanentprocess spreading to world revolution
- Stalin played it that Trotsky wanted to sacrifice Russia
- Successes
- Support of higher party members
- Backed Lenin
- Power to advance positions due to bureaucratic positions
- Not extreme left or right - central
- Peoples Commissar forNationalities
- Liason Officer Poliburo & Orgburo
- Head of Workers and Peasants Inspectorate
- General Secretary of Bolshevik Party
- Control of Party organisation and membership
- Successes
- Right Socialism in One Country STALIN
- turning Russia into modern statedefending itself against internal & externalenemies.
- Stalin seen as the great Russian patriot.
- survival of the USSR a priority
- Build a modern state in Russia
- Left Permanent Revolution TROTSKY
- NEP - New Economic Policy
- Right Tomsky, Bukharin and Rykov
- Continue NEP
- Selling Grain abroad pay for industrialization
- Left Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev
- End NEP
- wanted restrictions reimposed on peasants. Squeeze more grain out of the peasants to pay for Industrilisation
- Right Tomsky, Bukharin and Rykov
- The Future of the revolution
- LEFT Bureaucratic Degeneration
- RIGHT Bonapartism
- Argued Trotsky would become dictator
- How Stalin Won
- Round 1 Lenins Funeral
- Round 2 Stalin refused for Lenins testament to be read out
- Round 3 Trotsky attacked by right and STALIN (TRIUMVIRATE ) Trotsky criticises party for being too bureaucratic defeated as congress full of Stalin supporters
- Round 4 Left destroys itself 1924 Zinoviev and Kamenev launch campaign against Trotsky questioning his loyalty. STALIN acted as peacemaker
- Round 5 Got rid of
Left
- Round 6 – the right knocked out by Stalin. Stalin turns agianst NEP attacking right wing ofthe party.Advocates rapid industrialisation & use offorce on peasants – (the policies of the left). Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky outvoted on theNEPthey were removed from Politiburo and other party bodies.
- 1925 – Zinoviev and Kamenev attacked Stalin as anti NEP.Failed as everyone voted for Stalin
- 1926 – Zinoviev, Kamenev allying with Trotsky in the United Opposition. Started demonstration in Moscow against NEP – led to them being accused of Factionalism.
- 1925 – Stalin’s policy of Socialism in One country became the view of the right as it fitted with the NEP
- 1927 – expelled from the party
- Round 5 Got rid of
Left
- Round 4 Left destroys itself 1924 Zinoviev and Kamenev launch campaign against Trotsky questioning his loyalty. STALIN acted as peacemaker
- Round 3 Trotsky attacked by right and STALIN (TRIUMVIRATE ) Trotsky criticises party for being too bureaucratic defeated as congress full of Stalin supporters
- Round 2 Stalin refused for Lenins testament to be read out
- Round 1 Lenins Funeral
- Trotsky
- Trotsky
- Inherent weaknesses
- Rich
- Jewish
- Arrogant
- Urban
- Failures
- Mensheviks
- Rejected Lenins Beliefs
- Support of young communists rather than established
- Mensheviks
- Successes
- Red Army Support
- Inherent weaknesses
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