POWER STURGGLE 1924-9

Question 1

STALIN: CONTENDER 1

Answer 1

genuine wc bg, keane follower of marxism than religion, on general committee of b since 1912, commissioner of nationalities but had conflicts with party members (disobedience)

Question 2

TROTSKEY: CONTEDNER 2

Answer 2

sig leader of red army, military competent. intellectually matched lenin, only joined 1917

Question 3

lenin and Stalin fall out: geograin affair

Answer 3

soviletsaion of Georgia, Stalin verbally absued lenin wife> held onto in the testament + stalin fear lenin getting too close to trotskey

Question 4

lenin death=

Answer 4

personality went with him, kept party going(statues of him/god like)

Question 5

funeral of lenin

Answer 5

stalin main coffin bearer, stalin produce funderal oration, told trolley song date (didn’t turn up)

Question 6

Lenin’s testament

Answer 6

stalin had too much authroity> chauvinism over Georgian. reccomened stalin removal, critiquing contenders.

Question 7

lenin tetsiment: stalin overthrew
+TRAIMBURENT

Answer 7

didn’t go beyond central committee
stalin able to expel trotskey from politburo
stalin rebuked testament as anti soviet
TRIAMBURENT FORM: stalin+kamenv”zionever v trotksey

Question 8

1st main issue: nep and industrialsiaon debate

Answer 8

industralsaion was key to create large proletarian class and catching up with the west
as economic circumstances changed, so where opinions 1924 economic recover, 1915 two new views

Question 9

1st main issue: nep and industrialsiaon debate
RIGHT WING: BUKARIN+RYKOV

Answer 9

keep nep going, peasants get richer and will spend more money on consumer goods>conflict with peasants may result in economic disintegration

Question 10

1st main issue: nep and industrialsiaon debate
LEFT WING: ZINOVER + KAMENEV

Answer 10

wished to end nep>rapid industrialisation
peasants squeeze for grain> use to industrialise

Question 11

stalin central between left+right wing in industrialisation nep

Answer 11

flexibility appealed to majority as circumstances changed
eg 1924> favour nep. 1928 majority urge need for Soviet Union so lenin change stance

Question 12

ISSUE TWO: IDELOGICAL DIFFERENCES: PERMENANT REV TROTSKEY

Answer 12

Russian socialism couldn’t occur with a socialist rev in west
russian wc too small and economically under dev
russia would help other countries, wc to revolt to bring world communist rev

Question 13

ISSUE TWO: IDELOGICAL DIFFERENCES:
socialsim in one country: stalin

Answer 13

socialsim had to be in russia first w/o external influence
appeal to newer less educate members of party who were eless marixst
appeal to right party who were pragamtic
more nationalistic and patriotic.

Question 14

result of socialsim in one country(siding with the right)

Answer 14

zinov + kamenev reunites with trotskey

Question 15

1925-6 trotskey/kamenev

Answer 15

accused of factionalism > expelled and replaced by stalinist

Question 16

1928 stalin change fo side

Answer 16

urged for rapid indsutralsaion and abandonment of nep> opp from rightists > bukharlin+rightists replaced and demoted by stalinist

Question 17

politburo

Answer 17

1927- mixture rightist/leftist/stalinist
1928 - stalinist rightists (leftists defeated and rmeoved
1929- stalinist > stalin undisrupted leader of politburo

Question 18

STALIN AND HIS POWER BASE: WHY SUCCESSFUL AND COULD EXCERSIZE POWER :

Answer 18

party secutary(control politburo)
position in ogburo (control over appointments to positions of responabsility)
control of party organsaiotn(influence of selection of party delegates)
control party memebership(get rid of opp/radicle elements who may support trotskey)
TROTSKEYE XILE 1928, EXPELLED UNDE USSR 1929