Stalin Rise to Power Quotes Flashcards
Histiography
Ideological - NEP
Liberal - Personality
Structuralist - General Secretary of the Communist Party position
Revisionist - Lenin enrolment
Lenins thoughts on Stalin
“That wonderful Georgian” - Lenin
What Lenin left behind
“Lenin’s greatest bequest to the Soviet Union was authoritarianism” Micheal Lynch
Oration Speach
“In leaving us, Comrade Lenin commanded us to keep the unity of our Party.”
Textbook about Lenin’s legacy importance.
“If a Party member could assume the mantle of Lenin…he would establish a formidable claim to power. This is exactly what Stalin began to do” – Micheal Lynch
Lenin testament quotes
- “I am not sure [Stalin] always knows how to exercise…power with sufficient caution.”
- “to think about ways of removing Comrade Stalin from that position.”
Unassuming Quotes
“dull, grey blank” - Nicolai Sukhanov
Personality
“Unspectacular and methodical” - Lynch
Ruthlessness
wife “died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity”
Roles made him:
an “indispensable link of the chain” Lynch
Trotsky on NEP
“fragrant errors of economic policy”
Trotsky on modernisation
Modernisation “secondary to…[his] international revolution” - Lynch
Stalin on modernisation
“Either we do it, or we shall be crushed”
Ruthless w/Kulaks
“liquidate the kulaks as a class”
Stalin and Lenin similarity in rule
Lynch: Stalin and Lenin were a “continuation of absolutist tradition”
