Power Struggles

Question 1

Name the four stages of the power struggle after Lenin’s death

Answer 1

• Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin against Trotsky in 1923–4. (Triumvirate)
• Stalin and Bukharin against Zinoviev and Kamenev in 1925. (Dual -rule)
• The United Opposition of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev against Stalin, Rykov and Bukharin in 1926–7.
• Stalin against Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky in 1928–9.

Question 2

Who were Stalin’s opposition?

Answer 2

• Yakov Sverdlov
• Leon Trotsky
• The Bolshevik Twins (Zinoviev and Kamenev)
• Alexei Rykov
• Nikolai Bukharin
• Mikhail Tomsky