How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin’s defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29? Lenin’s death on the 21st January 1924 caused huge sadness across the country. After Lenin’s death‚ everyone was eagerly waiting to know who would be the next leader of Russia. In the years after Lenin’s death‚ there was no clear successor to his leadership. However‚ when Lenin was leader‚ Trotsky was always there for him‚ and he played a huge role in
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How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin’s defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29 Lenin’s death in 1924 not only created a power vacuum but also a bitter struggle for supremacy between Stalin‚ Trotsky‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev and Bukharin as each tried to become the new leader of the communist party. Whilst I do think that the personalities of the combatants were noteworthy I believe that the other elements involved such as Stalin’s tactical
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How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin’s defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29? In the lead up to Lenin’s death and the years that followed‚ it would seem Stalin was in a weaker position than several of his opponents‚ as many doubted his role in the Revolution and‚ therefore‚ his role as a leader of the Party. Several factors played a role in allowing Stalin to be victorious‚ however‚ comparatively they hold varying significance
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How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin’s defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29? In the years before Lenin’s death and the years that followed. Stalin was seen to be in the weaker position than the seven other opponents‚ this being because he was doubted in his role in the revolution and therefore as his role of the leader of the party. I believe that the personalities of the contenders was significant in the power struggle but it
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‘The Bolsheviks were able to defeat their opponents in the Civil War 1918-1921 because of Trotsky’s military leadership.’ Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. During the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) the Bolsheviks‚ or the Reds‚ encountered opposition from the Whites‚ Greens and Blues in the attempt to consolidate their power and take full control of Russia after their seizure of power in October 1917. The new Bolshevik government was not democratically elected; after they seized
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Stalin made extremely challenging decisions regarding Soviet’s foreign relations with other European and North American nations during his regime. Before Stalin’s rule‚ Vladimir Lenin became the first leader to create the world’s first single-party socialist state (12). He set up a Communist International organization that strongly advocated world communism. Lenin sent it out to Europe and Asia‚ in hope of liberating the people from capitalist and imperialist control. This policy contrasted the ideas
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Within the period 1894-2005‚ Lenin has been the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR. How valid is this statement? It can be argued that Lenin was the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR due to his revolutionary ideas‚ such as the implementation of socialist reforms‚ his New Economic Policy in 1921 and the transformation of the Bolshevik faction to the Communist Part of the Soviet Union leading to a huge Marxist-Leninist movement in the USSR. However‚ when assessing the ‘significance’
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not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin The first reason why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin was because Stalin had an important position of General Secretary. He used his position as secretary to put his supporters on the Central Committee of the party and dismissed Trotsky’s. This helped him establish control over the party and this lead to him building a powerbase in which he was in control. Having mostly his supporters in the party helped as there were few members in the party
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How successful were Stalin’s economic policies in the 1930s? Although it is unarguable to deny that there was certain economic progress in Stalinist Russia throughout the 1930s‚ it is understandable to postulate that the policies implicated under Stalin’s regime were merely introduced primarily to consolidate his political hold on the USSR. During this period‚ Stalin placed particular emphasis on Industrialisation and the abolition of older methods of peasant-controlled farming to be replaced with
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likely candidate to succeed Lenin. By looking at the facts and the background history of Stalin‚ it is quite clear that he was not the favoured candidate. The cons outweighed the pros and numerous reasons such as Lenin’s testament‚ Stalin’s poor revolutionary record‚ not being an intellectual thinker and being a dull and uninspiring person all led Stalin to being a less favoured candidate. Lenin was the overall leader of communist Russia‚ and was very well respected. His word was law‚ and they
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