Stalin's rise to power
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- Created on: 11-04-14 18:41
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- Stalin's rise to power
- Had many power positions within the party
- General secretary
- Member of the politburp
- Secretariat and orgburo
- was commissar for nationalities 1917-23
- Head of workers and peasants inspectorate
- Very close to Lenin in his final months- controlled who access to him
- Regarded as a man who could get things done
- His rivals- Trotsky, Zinoveiv, Karmenv and Bukharin
- Won personality battle- they were patronising and vain
- In control of the Lenin enrollment
- Increased party membership- new recruits loyal to stalin
- Built the cult of Lenin before he promoted himself as successor
- Policies which he was associated with where the ones in keeping with Soviet needs
- Joined Bolshivik party in 1903
- Outsider (Georgian) shows he was not just looking for power
- Insignificant party- very unpopular
- Had luck 1920's- Lenin's testament
- If published would of ruined his political career
- Had many power positions within the party
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