2.1.2 Power Struggle Flashcards
1
Q
what do we have to remember despite asking to contrast
A
they were all much more similar than they’d care to admit (one-party, one-ideology state, terror + repression as means to their end, ultra-centralism)
2
Q
trotsky general overview
A
- WORLD REVOLUTION (radical lad)
- commanding, natural orator
- hero of civil war (red army commander)
- originally a menshevik (latecomer, alienates old bols)
3
Q
zinoviev general
A
- leader comintern
- originally opposed Lenin’s call for October Revolution
- stalin got him expelled from party in 1925 (he came back tho)
4
Q
kamenev general
A
- head of petrograd comm party + acting leader of party when Lenin was ill
5
Q
Stalin general
A
- SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY (pragmatic)
- administrative + social skills, long-term party loyalty
- not charismatic, not well known
6
Q
General account for rise of Stalin
A
POLITICAL ASTUTENESS
isolating + discrediting T,Z+Km using them as political pawns
* exploiting position as General Secretary
* existing ideological divisions btwn Left + Right –> allying + party policy (on party unity)
* exploiting Lenin’s cult of personality
* BUT stalin wouldn’t have been able to do all that had opponents not underestimated him
