Power Struggle

Question 1

Who is on the Right side of the Party?

Answer 1

Rykov, Tomsky and Bukharin.

Question 2

What position of power did Bukharin hold?

Answer 2

Editor of Pravada.

Question 3

What position of power did Kaminev have?

Answer 3

Head of the communist party in Moscow.

Question 4

What position of power did Zinoviev have?

Answer 4

Head of communist party in Leningrad.

Question 5

What position of power did Trotsky have?

Answer 5

He was in charge of the Red Army.

Question 6

What did the Left of the party want to do to the NEP? And what was Trotsky’s policy?

Answer 6

End NEP (rapid industrialisation and grain requisitioning)
Permanent Revolution (money and effort into working class in OTHER countries to stage revolution.

Question 7

What did the Right of the party want to do with the NEP and what was Stalin’s policy?

Answer 7

Keep the NEP (moderate methods and encourage peasants to be richer)
Socialism in One Country (build a socialist state WITHOUT foreign help.)

Question 8

When did Stalin come into Power?

Answer 8

December 1929.

Question 9

When was the grain crisis?

Answer 9

1927-28

Question 10

When does the NEP end and Industrialisation begin?

Answer 10

1929-1930

Question 11

When does Stalin become General Secretary?

Answer 11

1922.

Question 12

When are K and Z removed from the Politburo?

Answer 12

1926. They were removed from the party the following year.

Question 13

When does the NEP begin?

Answer 13

1921.

Question 14

When is Bukharin removed from the party?

Answer 14

1929-1930.

Question 15

Why did Stalin win the Power Struggle?

Answer 15

Control of Admin
Mistakes of the Left
Mistakes of the Right 
Mistakes of Trotsky 
Popular policies 
Stalin's personality.

Question 16

What were Stalins roles in the party?

Answer 16

Commissar for Nationalities (controls parts of USSR that aren’t Russia) 1917

Head of the Orgburo (1919)

General Sec (1922)

Question 17

Mistakes of the Left involve:

Answer 17

Not publishing testament
Underestimated Stalin
Made Stalin look like peacemaker
K & Z thought their positions were more powerful
K & Z agree to let more Stalinists into the party

Question 18

Mistakes of Trotsky include:

Answer 18

Underestimating Stalin 
Didn't oppose decision to keep testament secret
Didn't attend Lenin's funeral
Permanent Revolution was unpopular 
Attacks party bureaucracy in 1924
Joined the party late 
Has no power base like K & Z
He has large army. People are afraid he will become a dictator

Question 19

Mistakes of the Right include:

Answer 19

Rykov and Tomsky had unimportant roles
The NEP was hated by most communists
Bukharin had little support (inexperienced and young)

Question 20

Stalin’s personality can be described as:

Answer 20

Totalitarian
Paranoid
Grey Blur

He also stole the Left’s policies and used them to defeat the Right.

Question 21

Popular policies include:

Answer 21

Socialism in One Country (patriotic)
NEP went well until 1926
Industrialisation
Permanent Revolution was unpopular

Question 22

Who is on the Left side of the party?

Answer 22

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kaminev.