POLITICS- one-party centralisation

Question 1

What type of rule was under Lenin

Answer 1

single-party rule
e.g
Lenin had shut down the Constituent Assembly and had only allowed one party when setting up the constitution in 1918

Question 2

What type of rule was under Stalin

Answer 2

One-party domination was extended further; the 1936 constitution only allowed for Communist Party members ti stand in elections.

Question 3

How did Stalin control decision making

Answer 3

The Nomenklatura system of privileges was used to reward loyal officials- decision making concentrated in a small handful of people

Question 4

Who did Stalin prefer to work with

Answer 4

individuals or small groups of people

Question 5

Stalin’s power

Answer 5

SO great that he no longer depended on the Party.

Party congresses were seldom called

Question 6

Commissars reactions to Stalin

Answer 6

They were supposed to tremble when they saw him

Question 7

Stalin appointing position

Answer 7

Where he could, he appointed younger officials to positions of authority as they owed their positions to Stalin and would therefore give him total support

Question 8

Stalin’s policies weakened his control

Answer 8

For example the purges started with Stalin but then acquired a momentum of their own as many local officials virtually did as they pleased.
Corruption was widespread.