Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Leadership Struggle- Stalin
vs Trotsky
- Stalin
- Strengths
- Secretary General of the
USSR- chose who to appoint
to positions inside Politburo
- Tricked Trotsky- didn't go to
Lenin's funeral
- Cunning: allied with everyone
to kick out everyone
- Very hardworking
- Defended well Stalingrad during
civil war 1921
- Wanted to establish "socialism in 1
country" --> popular
- Underestimated
- Weaknesses
- Relatively unknown at first
- Came from Georgia, not Russia
- Trotsky
- Strengths
- Seen as a hero by communists
- Brest-litovsk treaty
- civil war
- Brilliant speaker+writer
- Great political thinker
- Weaknesses
- Offended other party members
- Arrogant
- Didn't take opposition seriously
- Didn't make many friends
- Wanted a global communist
revolution- many thought it
would bring wars
- Got ill during critical moment when Lenin died
- Tricked by Stalin- didn't go to Lenin's funeral