Stalin's Rise To Power

Description

GCSE History (Stalin's Dictatorship: USSR, 1924-41) Mind Map on Stalin's Rise To Power, created by Demi Wilkie on 30/04/2017.
Demi Wilkie
Mind Map by Demi Wilkie, updated more than 1 year ago
Demi Wilkie
Created by Demi Wilkie over 7 years ago
514
3

Resource summary

Stalin's Rise To Power
  1. Trosky's strengths as a leader
    1. He organised to November 1917 revolution
      1. Had led the Reds to victory during the Civil War
        1. Demonstrated he was a good organiser and inspiring leader at those two events
          1. Was clever, an excellent orator and writer
          2. Trotsky's weaknesses as a leader
            1. Was jewish, many people in Russia were anti-Semitic
              1. Was too self confident, arrogant at times
                1. Didn't appeal as Lenin's right-hand man e.g. didn't show up to Lenin's funeral
                  1. Believed in world revolution and didn't appeal to most russians
                    1. Joined the Bolsheviks later in 1917
                      1. few supporters in the politburo which meant he had little control of the communist party
                        1. Didn't quote Lenin as much as Stalin did
                          1. Didn't control the media newspaper, Stalin did
                          2. What Stalin did to become the Party's leader?
                            1. Was devious and conspirturial

                              Attachments:

                              1. His ideas of communism were more popular than Trotsky's

                                Attachments:

                                1. How he used his position as general secretary

                                  Attachments:

                                  1. How he tries to make people believe he was Lenin's right-hand man

                                    Attachments:

                                  Show full summary Hide full summary

                                  Similar

                                  Germany 1918-39
                                  Cam Burke
                                  1 History-Alliances
                                  melgallagher
                                  4. Civil War
                                  ShreyaDas
                                  Why did Chamberlain's Policy of Appeasement fail to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939?
                                  Leah Firmstone
                                  Conferences of the Cold War
                                  Alina A
                                  Weimar Revision
                                  Tom Mitchell
                                  Hitler and the Nazi Party (1919-23)
                                  Adam Collinge
                                  History of Medicine: Ancient Ideas
                                  James McConnell
                                  Geography Coastal Zones Flashcards
                                  Zakiya Tabassum
                                  GCSE AQA Physics - Unit 3
                                  James Jolliffe
                                  GCSE History – Social Impact of the Nazi State in 1945
                                  Ben C