Why Stalin emerged as leader of the USSR?
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- Why did Stalin emerge as leader of the USSR?
- LUCK
- Trotsky didn't show up for Lenin's funeral
- Stalin was able to take control over the funeral and manipulate it to his advarntage
- Initial point of trotsky's downfall
- Lenin's Testament wasn't published
- Contained damning comment about Stalin.
- Sverdlov's death enabled stalin to gain control of the party machine in one swoop.
- Trotsky didn't show up for Lenin's funeral
- Personal Characteristics and political skills
- Stalin was manipulative and could use a situation to his advarntage
- Lenin's funeral
- Stalin played on Leninism to his followers to gain support
- Was seen as one of the few leaders with proletarian roots
- Stalin went from nothing to a dictator in about 6 years.
- His comrades perceived him as Dull and Mediocre 'they grey blur'
- no one saw him as a threat, became too late then to undermine him
- Stalin was manipulative and could use a situation to his advarntage
- Weaknesses of opponents
- Trotsky made no attempt to gain support, or attack stalin because he felt secure
- Underestimated by his apponants
- POLICIES
- Russia was left without any direction after Lenin.
- Socialism in one country appealed to the Burocrats
- People wanted to catch up with other industrialized countries and Stalin was keen on industrial revolution
- Stalin gained the majority of the votes and he seemed a steady and reliable leader
- Russia was left without any direction after Lenin.
- LUCK
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