Why did Stalin rise to power
- Created by: Mubanga Kauseni
- Created on: 04-06-19 11:35
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- Why did Stalin rise to power?
- Control of the party
- 1919 sverdlov dies, Stalin took control of his positions. In charge of the orgburo and made general sec
- Appointed his supporters to key positions
- supervised the Lenin enrolment and gained support
- Triumvirate and Duumvarite. Stalin took advantage of the strengths of his colleagues, he was central.
- Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev kicked out in 1927
- Luck
- Lenin's testament isn't released
- Trotsky doesn't attend Lenin's funeral
- Dzerzhinsky and Sverdlov died and if they didn't die Stalin wouldn't have key positions
- Lenin died
- Bukharin expelled from the party 1929
- K and Z expelled 1928-9
- Weakness of his opponents
- All his opponents underestimated him
- Trotsky didn't built a powerbase, Bukharin left forming alliances too late
- During the infighting of 1924-25, Stalin acted as peace maker and gained support
- Stalin's policies
- He wanted Socialism in one country which appealed to party members and presented himself as ideologically correct
- Painted Trotsky as anti-Russian because he wanted global scale revolution
- Supported the ban on factions, which helped because K and Z were accused of factionalism
- the grain crisis in 1927 made Stalin decide to end the NEP which gained him support
- He wanted Socialism in one country which appealed to party members and presented himself as ideologically correct
- Stalin's personality
- Tactical, became close to Lenin and claimed he knew what Lenin wanted
- Percieved as dull and grey which meant that no one saw him as a threat
- Loyal to the party, ruthless
- Control of the party
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