Chapter 14 Flashcards
(16 cards)
civil war outbreak
march 1918
civil war end
end 1922
who gave support to ‘whites’ and why
former allies of GB, Fr, USA for ideological reasons, and to get russia back into war
change in capital during war
Petrograd to Moscow
deaths in civil war
10mil from hunger, disease and conflict
how did lenin deal with opposition within the party
April 1921 ban on factions - meant any decision made by the Central Committee had to be accepted by Party members, on pain of expulsion
Evidence of Stalin creating personal dictatorship within the party
- no party congresses called between 1939-52
- preffered to work with small, personally selecteed individuals who formed an ‘echo chamber’ than with the full politburo
when lenin est politburo
1919
Party mebership increase due to stalin as general secretary
doubled from 1924-5
Change in party composition from lenin to stalin
- lenin have small, disiplined elite who ideologically driven
- Stalin has careerists who foccused on advancing their own postion
- lenin loyal to party and marxism
- stalin loyal to stalin
1936 constitution
- gave rights to ethnic groups
- yet largely ignored
- such as mass deportations of ethnic koreans
lenin vs stalin propoganda
- lenin use only in civil war to boost ‘reds’ and therefore support for party
- stlain create cult of personality
features within stalin’s cult of personality from 1929-45
- mightly leader
- true disiple of Lenin and Engles
- ‘red tsar’
evidence of stalin’s cult of personality being used in everyday life
In textbooks used in schools, Stalin portrayed himself as the leader of the October revolution, and others like Trotsky as ‘enemies of the people’
key escalation in the power from lenin to stalin
Stalin progressed to be above the party
key similarity between the regimes of lenin and stalin
Both unpopular leaders, who had to impose their government of people that wouldn’t last without supression of opposition
