leadership began from being promoted by Lenin. After Lenin’s death‚ there were five main people struggling to achieve the position of a leader of USSR. These were: Trotsky‚ Bukharin‚ Kamenev‚ Zinoviev and Stalin. Stalin wanted to become the leader of USSR. His main rival was Leon Trotsky because he had the support of the Soviet people. Trotsky‚ Kamenev and Zinoviev joined together to oppose the continuation of the New Economic Policy (a new and more capitalized economic policy‚ which was supposed to revive
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Animal Farm: Political Issues Eric Arthur Blair‚ better known by his psuedonym George Orwell‚ is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels‚ including one of his most famous‚ Animal Farm. In a satirical form‚ George Orwell uses personified farm animals to express his views on stalinism in the novel Animal Farm. Throughout Orwell ’s early novels‚ democratic socialism kept the author from total despair of all
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The following research will analyze the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. We will see what Animal Farm is really about and why it was banned in some countries. The References And Implications To Communism Are What Led To The Banning Of Animal Farm. Many people feel that Animal Farm is one of Orwell’s most noted books‚ but to people like Joseph Stalin‚ it posed a threat. The implications to communism were too strong‚ and the characters too closely resembled actual communists. Animal Farm threatened
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during the struggle for power Stalin was reasonably quiet at the beginning. This makes him sly and sneaky because we get the impression he is up to no good. Stalin also lied about the date of Lenin’s funeral to Trotsky. This meant that Trotsky didn’t attend the funeral which made Trotsky look really bad and disrespectful. Lying about the funeral date makes Stalin look cunning and his personality doesn’t seem like a nice person. However these factors aided him to become future leader of Russia.
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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 the Civil War‚ therefore everyone thought he would become Lenin’s successor. However‚ as well as Trotsky there were other significant contenders‚ such as Stalin‚ Bukharin‚ Zinoviev and Kamenev which created a huge power struggle. I believe that the personalities of the contenders
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though it was not considered the Bolshevik ’s perfect idea of communism. Lenin died in 1924 and because he did not leave any clear successor to lead the party‚ a power vacuum was left for a new leader to emerge. The possible contenders were Trotsky‚ Stalin‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev‚ Bukharin‚ Rykov and Tomsky‚ who all held high positions within the party. It is certain that Stalin was not who Lenin wanted for leader‚ as before Lenin died they had a strained relationship. He had realised how much
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trust of Vladimir Lenin‚ who invited Stalin to join the highest levels of Bolshevik power‚ although others - including Leon Trotsky - subsequently criticised the brutality of Stalin and his troops while suppressing counter-revolutionary insurgents in Poland and Ukraine. By 1921‚ Stalin had been asked by Lenin to help secure his power base against a perceived threat from Trotsky‚ culminating in Lenin’s victory at the Tenth Party Congress later that
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as leader of the Bolshevik party still remains. Following the death of Lenin in 1924‚ a power vacuum developed within the Bolshevik party and it was clear that a leadership race between candidates had begun. Stalin was able to rise above men like Trotsky‚ Kamenev and Zinoviev to launch into new economic policies‚ collectivisation and industrialisation. The main key to Stalin’s success in gaining power after Lenin’s death was held in his alignment with the former ‘hero’ of Russia‚ as well as his ability
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LENIN Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother
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was due to the weakness of Leon Trotsky‚ who was one of the strongest competitors that Stalin faced in succeeding Lenin as leader of the Communist Party. However‚ there are actions taken by Trotsky that weakened himself as an opposition. For example‚ Trotsky believed in permanent revolution‚ and he sought to promote and incite revolutions all over the world. However‚ he failed to convince his fellow Party members of his idea of world revolution. In addition‚ Trotsky only had the most of his support
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