Rise to power Flashcards
(15 cards)
Stalin Origins
- Georgian Born (1879)
- infleunced by revolutioary group that wanted georgian indepdence from russia; met marxist and socialist ideology
- left group; joined Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
- met lenin in Siberia/Finland when exiled; meets lenin and joins bolksheviks
Pre-Lenin Conditions
- Tzar Nicholas/Alexander II; Bad Leaders (Tzarcist Autocracy)
- Feudal system; peasant lack of freedom of speech/control
- bloody sunday; peaceful protest that resulted in government massacre== people lose faith; RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
- civil war; red army vs white/gren army
- bolksehvik revolution 1917; lenin and supporters overthrow tzar
Lenin establishment
- he established the communist single party state
- decree for land, peace, and rights of the people of russia; land taken from landlords/churches and given to people + elections held for states + opposiion banned
- marxist/bolschevik views
- resenetment of bourgeioisies
- war communism with red army state; state control of factors and armies for civil war prep
- new economic plan; state control but peasants keep grain surplus
- Treaty of Brest-Litvosk; allowed for RUssia to leave WWI and fix russia
new economic plan
- a step back from the civil wars war communism
- regain of state industry and transporation control
- peasants can keep surplus grain after taxes
new economic plan reactions
TROTSKY: against it and he thinks it leads away from a socialist state
KAMENEV/ZINOVIEV: against it as they sympathazid with workers
Buhkarin supports it
Stalin; swithces back and forth to his own advantage (peasants support it but he also wants pro industriliation due to war scare)
factionalism
group of people in politices with the same purpose who reject the status quou
= lenin made it illegal
lenin’s death issues
- 1924 dies; leaves no successor after own ill state
who were the candidates for power?
- stalin
- trotsky
- buhkarin
- zinoviev
- kamenev
stalin candidate
- general secretary; aware of his health
- military technician
- senior committee presence
- charisma
- lenin disliked him
- however appealed to national pride
trotsky candidate
- revolutinoary
-jewish - principial leitunenant
- structured red army
- good speeches
- no better communist- lenin
rightist
buhkarin candidate
- moscow communists
-young
-radical
-‘doesnt understand marxism’-lenin
rightist
zinoviev candidtate
propaganda
close friend of lenin
policitcal failure
united opposition
kameneve candidtate
lenins friend senior communists pushover boring speeches politburo chairman united opposion
list the reasons why stalin came to power
- supervised lenins health in last days; made him look close tohim
- lenin’s testament wasnt read out loud (lenin had stated his dislike of stalin in it; to ‘spare stalins feelings’)
- stalin gives trotsky wrong funeral date + propagates himself as lenins friend (trotsky commits cardinal sin)
- trotsky defeated in elections; stalin becomes powerful politburo member
- stalin creates ‘socialism in one country’ policy; attracts supporters
- lenin enrollment
- alliance with buhkarin (rightist); helps stalin defeat trotsky
- trotsky, zinoviev and kamenenv form a troika to remove stalin; are accused of factionialistm and expelled from party
- stalin attacks buhkarin on NEP; expells him from party
- Stalin advocates industrilization; gains peasant support
- NEP disagreements; stalin in middle so he gains support
- position as general secreatry; controlls party membership
- senior committee; influence/prestige among party
- scissor crisis; economic decline in food cost and industrial goods price increase
- his opponenents underestimated him, used legal methods and appealed to public opinion
lenin enrollment
created by stalin so people can pay their respect to lenin; propaganda
