Pre Stalin

Question 1

What position did Stalin have?

Answer 1

General secretary= he appointed people into the party.

Question 2

What were the issues with the NEP? (After 1925)

Answer 2

1. High levels of unemployment
2. Wages did not keep up w/rising consumer goods prices, creating poverty
3. Food shortages due to peasants holding on to produce because they could not buy much with their money

Question 3

Who wanted to replace the NEP with rapid industrialisation?

Answer 3

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 4

Who wanted to keep the NEP?

Answer 4

Bukharin (right of the party) in order for peasants to get richer to spend more on vonsumer goods, leading to the growth of manufactoring.

Question 5

Who wanted a permanent revolution (to achieve communism around the globe) ?

Answer 5

Trotsky.

Question 6

Who wanted socialism in One country

Answer 6

Stalin

Question 7

How did Stalin oust Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev?

Answer 7

In response to the 3 forming the ‘United Opposition’ against Stalin, he accused the 3 of factionalisation which went against the 1921 Ban on Factions. So he had them kicked out of the party.

Question 8

What was Lenin’s Enrolement (1923-25)

Answer 8

The recruitment of +500 000 naive and uneducated workers, supervised by Stalin.
(Patronage)