Stalin's Dictatorship - Reasons for Winning Power Struggle

GAINED SUPPORT - TELLING TROTSKY WRONG DATE

• LEAD TO TROTSKY NOT ATTENTING
• MADE PUBLIC BELIEVE TROTSKY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT LENIN ENOUGH TO MOURN HIM
• MADE STALIN LOOK MORE DEDICATED TO COUNTRY

GAINED SUPPORT - CHIEF MOURNER

• ACCENTUATED DEDICATION
• MADE HIM SEEM CLOSE TO LENIN - MADE PUBLIC BELIEVE HE WOULD RULE COUNTRY IN SIMILAR WAY
• PUBLIC ADORED LENIN - WANTED COUNTRY RULED IN SAME WAY

GAINED SUPPORT - SPEECHES

• PRAISED LENIN - LOYAL SIDEKICK TO POPULAR LEADER
• BUILDING UP REACTIONS FROM THOUSANDS OF ATTENDING RUSSIANS - MORE AWARENESS OF IDEAS
• ALLOWED PEOPLE TO GET TO KNOW MORALS AND INTENDED POLICIES

ALLOWED HIM TO GAIN SUPPORT AND POPULARITY FROM PUBLIC

CLAIMED THAT STALIN WAS 'RUDE' AND THAT MADE HIM 'INSUPPORTABLE' AND THAT TROTSKY WAS THE 'MOST WORTHY CANDIDATE'- WOULD HAVE LOST POWER STRUGGLE IF PUBLISHED

STOPPED PUBLIC FROM KNOWING WHO LENIN RECOMMENDED

• PUBLIC ADORED LENIN - RESPECTED OPINION

ALLOWED GOOD OPINION ON STALIN TO CONTINUE

• STALIN BUILT UP FOLLOWING AT LENINS FUNERAL
• CONVINCED PUBLIC HE WAS LOYAL TO LENIN - DIDN'T WANT OPINION TO CHANGE

ALLOWED GOOD OPINION OF STALIN TO CONTINUE - ELIMINATED EVERYTHING THAT WOULD COMPROMISE POPULARITY

STALIN CREATED IMAGE OF BEING CLOSE TO LENIN

• SEEMED TO PUBLIC TO BE LOYAL TO LENIN - WOULD RULE COUNTRY IN SIMILAR WAY
• WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR

STALIN HIGH UP IN COMMUNIST PARTY FOR LONGER

• PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO STICK WITH WHAT THEY KNOW
• MORE POPULARITY AND SUPPORT

TROTSKY ARROGANT

• ADMITTED BY LENIN IN HIS TESTAMENT
• LESS LIKABLE - LESS SUPPORT

TROTSKY DICTATOR

• LEAD RED ARMY TO VICTORY IN RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR - BRILLIANT LEADER - WORKED AGAINST STALIN
• PEOPLE SCARED OF TROTSKY - DICTATOR - LESS POPULARITY

STALIN ABLE TO USE POSITION TO EXPLOIT AND MANIPULATE POEPLE - ACCENTUATE GOOD IMAGE

APPOINTED JUNIOR OFFICIALS TO THE PARTY

• OWED THEIR POSITION TO HIIM - SUPPORTED HIM
• SCARED OF LOSING JOBS - STALIN IN CHARGE OF JOBS

APPOINTED HIS SUPPORTERS AS HIGHER POWERS

• HAD PEOPLE ON HIS SIDE FROM HIGH UP IN PARTY
• MORE LIKELY TO BE ELECTED

MEANT THAT HE COULD STOP LENINS TESTIMENT FROM BEING PUBLISHED

• STOPPED PUBLIC KNOWING LENIN'S OPINION OF HIM
• PUBLIC RESPECTED LENIN - WOULD HAVE COMPROMISED STALINS CLAIMS TO POWER

MADE SURE HIGHER POWERS WERE SUPPORTING STALIN - BUILD A STRONG CASE - ABLE TO STOP LENINS TESTAMENT BEING PUBLISHED

POLITICAL IDEA STARTED BY LENIN

JOINED TOGETHER WITH BUKHURIN TO PROMOTE NEP

• 1928 - DENOUNCED OTHER MEMBERS OF PARTY (TROTSKT, KAMENEV AND ZINOVIEV)
• CLAIMED THEY WERE TRAITORS TO LENIN - OPPOSED VIEWS - WANTED INDUSTRIALISATION AND COLLECTIVE FARMING

APPOINTED SUPPORTERS AS HIGH POSITIONS IN PARTY (GENERAL SECRETARY)

• GAINED SUPPORT HIGH UP IN PARTY - MEANT HE COULD ABANDON NEP

EXPELLED BUKHARIN FROM PARTY FOR SUPPORTING NEP

• IMPRISONED EVERYONE MAKING MONEY FROM POLICY
• ALL OPPOSITION ELIMINATED - FREE TO TAKE CONTROL

ALLOWED HIM TO ELIMINATE ALL OPPOSITION, USING HIS ROLE AS GENERAL SECRETARY TOAPPOINT SUPPORTERS TO HELP HIM FOLLOW THROUGH WITH EXPLOITATIONS AND SLYNESS