were four contenders to his place – Leon Trotsky‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Grigory Zinoviev and Joseph Stalin. ▪ Although Trotsky‚ Kamenev and Zinoviev were much more capable than Stalin‚ Stalin managed to outwit them and claim leadership despite Lenin’s will criticising Stalin and naming Trotsky as a successor. 2) Stalin Pretended to have been Close to Lenin ▪ Stalin tricked Trotsky and made him miss Lenin’s funeral which reflected very badly on Trotsky. ▪ Stalin also organised Lenin’s funeral
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hard to pin point the main reasons how Stalin got to power. Some historians may say that Stalin was lucky that he got to power and he benefited off events such as Lenin’s death and that his rival’s weaknesses such as Trotsky who was considered likely successor to Lenin‚ but Trotsky lacked the will for a political fight. However you just can’t become the leader of Russia just from good luck‚ Stalin used his ability to place himself in a great position within the party. This essay is going to look
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directly heightened Lenin’s role in the revolution‚ allowing him to exploit these weaknesses‚ with the help of Trotsky‚ whom he appropriated successfully to achieve the parties main end: a socialist‚ Bolshevik government‚ Sovnarkom. Lenin placed Trotsky as the leader of the Petrograd Soviet’s Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC) on September 25th 1917‚ to carry out a planned uprising‚ where Trotsky‚ between October 24th and 25th‚ ordered the Bolshevik Red Guards to seize key positions in Petrograd. This
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“The Trotsky” Journal. . After watching this movie‚ I have realized that Leon Bronstein had a very hard time to get others to follow his actions because he was boring into a rich family and because he went to a remarkable private school. Leon Bronstein was often teased by everyone at school‚ mostly by his principal and father. Bronstein thought he was the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky because he got sent to public school due to him starting a hunger
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Reasons for the Rise of Stalin 1) Stalin’s Political Position as ‘General Secretary’ 2) Stalin’s Development of the Cult of Lenin 3) Stalin’s Elimination Opposition or Persecution of Political Enemies 1) Stalin’s Political Position as ‘General Secretary’ Stalin was the General Secretary of Communist Party. This was not a powerful post and therefore attracted little fear and jealousy. But Stalin had the power to appoint junior party officials at every level of the party and thus he appointed
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How accurate is it to say that Lenin’s leadership was the most important reason for the Bolshevik’s success in the revolution of November 1917? Lenin’s leadership was to a large extent an important cause of the Bolshevik’s success in the November 1917 revolution. This is because of Lenin’s great leadership skills‚ including his personality and timing‚ and his use of propaganda. Other factors to why the Bolsheviks succeeded included Trotsky’s role‚ which was debatably more important‚ and the problems
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considered to be the reason as to why they were able to seize control. It could be said that Lenin was a significant factor due to his pragmatism and his use of terror‚ however it also could be said that other members of the Bolshevik party such as Leon Trotsky were responsible and perhaps even the Civil War for the Bolsheviks’ hold on power. Vladimir Lenin was responsible for the Bolsheviks growing hold on power in the years 1917-1924. One reason for this was his ability to be a pragmatic leader. During
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policies? Even though Stalin’s victory in the power struggle was partly due to his popular policies‚ it was not just this that allowed Stalin also because of the mistakes made by other rivals and factors that played into his hands. For example Trotsky was a former menshevik which helped Stalin accuse him of not been a true Bolshevik. There are many reasons that suggest Stalin’s victory in the power struggle was because his popular policies. For example Stalin’s popular policy of Socialism in
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leader of the Communist party does not want Stalin as secretary for he believes he holds too much power‚ then surely being the leader of the Communist party is more power than Stalin needs? Stalin was not a revolutionary man with people such as Trotsky having a far greater revolutionary record than him. He was a man of little initiative and preferred to take on the role of a follower rather than that of a leader. This would have been a problem for the party required someone with initiative and great
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ordinary occurred in Joseph Stalin’s childhood that you would expect to see in a man that would later become one of the world’s most brutal leaders. As a result of his use of fear‚ intimidation‚ and his successful plan to oust his main rival‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Joseph Stalin was able to seize power in Russia. From the beginning of Joseph Stalin’s college career he was seen as a leader. He started a committee in his college because he did not like the school’s curriculum. He recruited members so that
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