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Leadership candidates 1924 - Communist
Russia
- Leon Trotsky - Organised the October 1917 takeover; created the Red Army;
hero of the civil war, member of Sovnarkom; regarded by Lenin as the 'most
able' believed in permanent revolution; joined the Bolsheviks in the summer of
1917; a Jew; bourgeois background
- Joseph Stalin - Old Bolshevik but not senior member until 1912;
member of Sovnarkom; General Secretary of Communist Party
from 1922; positions in Orgburo and Secretariat; peasant
background
- Nikolai Bukharin - Joined Bolsheviks in 1906; not a senior member until
1922; theorist; described by Lenin as the 'golden boy'; some support in
Moscow and among youth; son of a school master
- Grigorii Zinoviev - Founder member of Bolshevik party; close associate of Lenin 1903-17;
joined Kamenev to oppose timing of October revolution; not a member of Sovnarkom;
powerbase in Leningrad; a Jew; bourgeois background
- Lev Kamenev - Old Bolshevik and close associate of Lenin; had
opposed timing of October revolution; not a member of Sovnarkom;
powerbase in Moscow; a Jew; bourgeois background