Stalin's Russia (1924-41) SUCCESSION (1)

Question 1

Stalin’s character

Answer 1

• Stephen Kotkin = diligent, intelligent, resourceful, rational

Question 2

Stalin’s abilities

Answer 2

• competent admin (strategist)
• General Sec of Bols Party (1922)
• not selfish = wanted to modernise
• wanted to protect from foreign threat

Question 3

examples of Stalin as a good Admin

Answer 3

• 1905 = representative of Bolsheviks in Georgia / south Russia
• 1912 = elected to central committee of Bols

Question 4

examples of Stalin as a good manager

Answer 4

• 1917-22 = manager for minorities issues / Civil War commander
• 1927 = controlled congress

-1936-38 = Great Terror

• 1939-41 = invasion prep

Question 5

examples of Stalin as a good planner

Answer 5

• target setter - economic / social
• 1928-33 = planned economy - police state / 5 year plan
• 1928 = collectivisation

Question 6

Stalin’s Rivals (part internal dispute exm)

Answer 6

• PG = K / Z / Rykov = wanted socialist coalition
• Brest-Litovsk
• WC vs NEP

Question 7

Internal ideological dispute

Answer 7

• NEP
• More openly democratic Government ?
• left- permanent rev vs
  right - socialism one country

Question 8

Stalin’s strategy

Answer 8

• manipulated debates
• position as General Sec

Question 9

Stalin Troika split

Answer 9

• Sovkarnom Chairman = Rykov
• Troika all the power = K/Z/S
• Trotsky discredited + replaced (1925)
• z/k concerned with Stalin’s policies
• removed from secretaries
  -politburo expanded 6-8 with Stalinists

Question 10

United Opposition group

Answer 10

• Trotsky + K + Z
  all opposed NEP -demanded free speech
  all removed from politburo
  Trotsky = exiled to Kazakhstan - 1927 + expelled from party
  Trotsky exiled from USSR - 1929

Question 11

Collectivisation

Answer 11

• grain requisitioning
• opposed by Bukharin
• called a factionalist
• joined Kamenev - 1929 = ousted
  (pravda editor - Comintern Pres-Politburo)
• Tomsky + Rykov demoted
  used loyal members to gain agreement to act as he pleased.