Introduction to section 1 Flashcards

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The contest to succeed Lenin involved:

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Kamenev
Zinoviev
Bukharin 
Trotsky 
Stalin
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The contest to succeed Lenin was not only a clash of personalities but also a clash over different policies. The main arguments were over the future of the…

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New Economic Policy

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Stalin’s position as General secretary of the communist party made him…

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Very powerful

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Stalin defeated his enemies by making a number of temporary alliances which helped him to…

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Defeat all his opponents

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Collectivisation is a policy of combining all farms into…

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Larger farms where peasants worked together

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Permanent revolution was Trotsky’s policy to secure communism’s future by helping…

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Communist revolutions outside of the USSR

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Socialism in one country was Stalin’s policy of putting the focus solely on…

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Building communism in the USSR, rather than helping it abroad

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Grain procurement crisis was caused by…

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Peasants hoarding grain

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