Soviet Union - Lenin's Responsibility for Totalitarian Government

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Lenin's responsibility for totalitarian government 1918-53?
- Responsible
  - Established the structures totalitarianism would employ
- Nomenklatura
  - Promoted members on loyalty
    - Politburo remained rather exclusive
      - Top-Down hierarchy and policy-making
    - Top-Down hierarchy and policy-making
    - Former bourgeoisie composed the elite however
  - Administrative Advantages
    - Rabkrin allowed Stalin to incriminate members
    - Bureaucracy suppressed opposition
      - Membership preferred greater opportunities
  - Incentives encouraged loyalty in low structures
- Purging
  - Ban on Factions
    - Consolidated Communist state gains
      - Newspaper circulation tightly controlled
    - Arrested Opposition Leadership
      - Over 5000 Menshiviks arrested 1921
  - Lower Party Structures
    - Suffered
      - Ban on Factions
        Consolidated Communist state gains
        Newspaper circulation tightly controlled
        
        Arrested Opposition Leadership
        Over 5000 Menshiviks arrested 1921
    - Especially targeted under Stalin
  - Chitska
    - Third of the Party purged
      - Employed in the Civil War
    - Predecessor to Stalin's Great Purge
- Collective Leadership
  - Strong Opposition within the Politburo membership
    - Ban on Factions
      - Stalin eliminated Party opponents
    - Rubber-Stamping limited to lower party structures
      - Lenin commanded greater influence than anyone else
        Brest-Litovsk & NEP
    - Divided over the NEP
      - Bukharin supported
        Stalin only sought ideological advantages
      - Trotsky opposed
        Stalin only sought ideological advantages

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