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Stalin's Rise
- Leadership Contest
- Why
- Lenin's death
- Left a testament
mentioning all potential
successors
- No final judgement
- Trotsky
- Agreed with Lenin
on red army
- Favoured by Lenin
- 1917 revolution figure
- Support from
younger members
- Heroism and gave
inspirational speeches
- Disagreed with
Lenin on ideology
- Stalin
- Poor relationship
with Lenin
- General secretary
- Can expell
members of party
- Not seen as threat by
other contenders
- Bukharin
- Admired Lenin
- Responsible
for pravada
- Referred to as
'Golden boy' by Lenin
- Kamenev
- Played no part
in civil war
- Close friend to Lenin
- Head of Moscow
communist party
- Little respect
from members
- Zinoviev
- Coward from
civil war
- Close with Lenin
- Least likely to be a
successor
- Opposed October
revolution
- Trotsky most
likely successor
- Opposed by many
- Debates over speed of
industrialisation and
revolution
- NEP debate
- Left - end of NEP
- Right -fear of breaking
alliance with peasants
- Communist party
split into left and
rights
- Rise
- Triumvirate with
Zinoviev and
Kamenev
- Convinced central
committee to keep Lenin's
testament a secret
- Saying it damaged NEP
- Lenin's funeral
- Stalin told Trotsky the
incorrect date
- Used Trotsky's
absence against him
- Zinoviev and Kamenev
attacked Trotsky
- Trotsky's book 'the
foundations of Lenin'
- Accused him of being
disloyal
- Stalin replaced Trotsky as
Commisar in 1925
- Zinoviev and
Kamenev became
suspicious of Trotsky
- Stalin emphasised
disagreements between
Lenin and Zinoviev
- Stalin removed Zinoviev
and Kamenev as
secretaries of local parties
- Trotsky, Kamenev and
Zinoviev formed united
opposition
- Stalin removed Zinoviev and
Kamenev from congress party in 1926
- Stalin removed Trotsky
from congress party in
1927
- Stalin and Bukharin
formed Duumvirate
- Trotsky exiled in 1929
- Bukharin joined with
Tomsky and Rykov
- Stalin formed rumours of
Bukharin, accusing of
factionalism
- Brought up Bukharin's
disagreements with lenin
- Bukharin lost
presidency of Pravada
and Tomsky sacked
- Tomsky and Rykov
removed from Politburo
- Stalin was now
dominant figure
- Eliminated leaders
on left and right
- Stalin defeated leaders
on right opposition, then
on left
- Stalin pretended to like
NEP for alliance with
Bukharin
- Stalin really wanted
socialism
- Used role as general
secretary to control
congress members