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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Hitler and Stalin Throughout American History there have been many powerful dictators. Two men that stand out very distinctly are Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. These two men from two different places‚ from two different families‚ who grew up two different ways‚ turned out to be the same. Hitler and Stalin both rose to the highest attainable position in their country. Hitler’s ideology was Nazi based‚ or National Socialistic. Natzism is an ideology that recieved its practical political form
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How did Stalin come to be the dominant leader of the Soviet Union? On the eve of Lenin’s death‚ there was no real or clear successor who would take leadership of the party. Even before his death Lenin himself recognised that there would be a power struggle between two of the most prominent leaders in the party‚ Trotsky and Stalin‚ which he expressed in his last testament (which was shielded from the public eye until the early 1950’s). In Lenin’s last testament‚ he even went on to briefly assess
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How would you feel if you had to share everything you had with everyone else around you? Not good? That is how the kulak class felt during the first five year plan issued by Stalin. This plan was supposed to increase the industry of Russia by quite a bit‚ if it had worked. He issued an act called collectivization where every farmer would share farms and equipment to increase efficiency this was part of his plan to liquefy the class. During this era the Kulaks felt horrible and were not treated correctly
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Stalin’s purges of 1937 were debatably one of the most horrific events of the 1900s. Stalin‚ the General Secretary of the Soviet Union‚ decided that to be able to have a nation which aligned with his political ideas‚ he would need to eradicate those who he deemed went against these views. Stalin used the purges as a method to exercise his political control over his population and control the political spectrum. Stalin killed millions during the purges. About four years later‚ Hitler‚ the leader of Germany
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After the Russian Revolution concluded‚ Joseph Stalin‚ Russian dictator‚ led to power in the Soviet Union. Stalin was a dictator‚ imposing brutal and horrific policies which killed millions of his citizens. He implemented a series of five-year plans‚ which rapidly increased the economic growth of the Soviet Union. It focused on industrialization and agriculture. According to History.com‚ it states “Stalin implemented a series of Five-Year Plans to spur economic growth and transformation in the Soviet
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As of 1927 Russia was vastly inferior to its neighboring countries industrially. With the ever growing fear of war‚ Joseph Stalin had to industrialize Russia and fast‚ or Russia was going to cease to exist. The result was the First Five Year Plan. In the communist government‚ a ministry was in charge of the execution of plans and there are t wo types of ministries. There was a sectoral ministry and a territorial ministry. The sectoral ministry was in charge of coal steel‚ textiles‚ aviation‚ and
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character Napolean and the real individual Stalin‚ rule the same way. The both rule in a very cruel way. Our group has determined that there is not really that much that they do not have in common. Stalin ruled through terror and through acts of cruelty. He was born into poverty‚ but was able to the position of a ruler. When his ruler‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ passed away‚ he pushed his way to the top‚ beat his enemies‚ and gained the position of ruler. When Stalin gained the power‚ he had any and every enemy
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Explain how Stalin developed the cult of personality in the 1930s. Stalin became leader of Russia in 1927. He needed to achieve the support of the Russian people and he managed to do this by using his intellect and power. He used propaganda and mass media. He also cleverly rewrote history‚ making it look as if he had a bigger part in the October revolution than he actually did. He also managed to make his relationship with Lenin look much closer than they were. He cunningly told Trotsky the wrong
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Stalin was not the most 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
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