How important was the fear of Trotsky becoming leader in explaining Stalin’s victory in the power struggle in the years 1924-1929? (24 marks) Everyone believed Trotsky would take leadership after Lenin died‚ even if they didn’t want him to. No one thought it would be Stalin. Therefore‚ Stalin felt he had to defeat Trotsky in order to become leader. However‚ the fear of Trotsky becoming leader isn’t the only factor in explaining Stalin’s victory in the power struggle. Lenin died‚ January 21
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this lag in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us!" Josef Stalin 1931‚ this quote sums up Stalin’s desire to modernize the Soviet Union. Stalin attempt to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of five year plans had various outcomes on the people‚ economy and politics in the country. The results of Stalin’s policies where mixed economically they where great‚ but politically and socially they had major flaws. Stalin increased the amount of heavy industry and the production of raw materials
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The two main rivals were Trotsky and Stalin‚ both members of the Politburo‚ the top section within the party. However‚ looking back from today we can see that Trotsky never really opposed a real threat to Stalin who would become the new leader of Russia officially in 1929. Stalin became the new communist leader after he successfully had won over both Trotsky‚ the right group of the party and the left group. In 1922 Stalin had been given the position as General Secretary of the Bolshevik party. Silently
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GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses
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Why Stalin and 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
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reign. Widely regarded as a tyrant‚ Stalin was responsible for massive repression of his people. However Russians remember Stalin for his leadership‚ advances in technologies‚ and victory in World War II. His usage of powerful leadership attributes created fear and promoted a tense paranoid feeling during his dictatorship. Under his leadership‚ Russia experienced a return to pre-revolutionary nationalism‚ while ancient themes and symbols were brought back.[1] Stalin‚ as a result‚ led by creating his
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Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union starting from 1922-1953 (Mazelev‚ 1999). Stalin is famous for his extremities used to build and sustain Communism in USSR. He is considered as one of the leaders who were responsible for the death of many people during their rule. The estimated number of deaths for which he is known to be responsible goes over 40 million (Price 2014). Can his actions be justified and what was the end of the means he used? Stalin‚ as his predecessor Lenin‚ was mostly affected
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History Why were Stalin’s opponents unable to prevent him from becoming the leader of the USSR by 1929? There are several reasons why Stalin’s opponents were unable to prevent him form becoming the leader of the USSR by 1929; the personality’s of the opponents being a hinting factor for themselves‚ Stalin’s cunning and sly ways to get what he wanted in the party‚ and Lenin’s testament not being publicly read out. Trotsky was Stalin’s main opponent for the next leader after Lenin’s death. Trotsky was
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Why Did Stalin Become a Dictator? At the beginning of the 20th century‚ Russia was a very poor country. Most of the people were peasants‚ and there was very little industry. After the First World War‚ things only got worse; the army suffered many huge defeats. The poorest of the people were starving‚ due to a shortage of food. During the war‚ in 1917 the Communists came about by two important revolutions; they were led by Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which the state controls the
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Joseph Stalin was one of the most influential dictators of the 20th century. He cleverly gained and maintained control of the Communist USSR and today is considered both a monster and a revolutionary. Stalin‚ throughout the duration of his rule‚ concentrated on the internalised and localised revolutionary development of the Soviet Union. Stalin desired a revival of communist revolutionary ideas and the creation of a truly socialist society‚ contrary to the direction his predecessor‚ Lenin‚ and his
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