Stalin’s Rise To Power

Question 1

Lenin’s fault + transition

Answer 1

Testament described Stalin as violent and careless

Question 2

Stalin’s consolidation

Answer 2

Placed loyalists in key positions of state, since he was secretary

Question 3

Trotsky’s mistakes

Answer 3

Didn’t participate much in party politics - coalitions made far too late
Global revolution directly oppositional to socialism in one country