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Stalin Vs. Trotsky: A Leadership Struggle (A Brief Overview)
- Stalin lied to Trotsky about the
date of Lenin's Funeral
- Trotsky was ill with
Malaria and was lied to
about the funeral's date
and didn't turn up.
- Trotsky had a damaged
reputation
- Trotsky had a damaged
reputation
- Trotsky didn't turn up making
Stalin look like Lenin's devoted
follower
- 1924
- Trotsky was ill with
Malaria and was lied to
about the funeral's date
and didn't turn up.
- Lenin's testament was not
given to the Soviet Party
Congress
- The Testament was given to the
Central Committee, but was not
read out at congress
- It was seen as:
- Unflattering towards Kamenev and Zinoviev
- As an aid to Trotsky whom Kamenev, Zinoviev,
Bukharin and Stalin were rivals with.
- Harsh towards Stalin whom the Central
Committee (Chaired by Kamenev) didn't think
was a real threat.
- Unflattering towards Kamenev and Zinoviev
- It was seen as:
- The Testament was given to the
Central Committee, but was not
read out at congress
- The Triumvirate was formed
between Kamenev, Zinoviev, and
Stalinin 1923
- It was formed against Trotsky
with the explicit intent to
keep Trotsky out of power
- Trotsky lost votes and a
majority in the Politburo due
to Stalin's large following and
Zinoviev and Kamenev's
areas of control.
- It was formed against Trotsky
with the explicit intent to
keep Trotsky out of power
- Zinoviev and Kamenev attack
Trotsky's party loyalty.
- Zinoviev and Kamenev bring
up Trotsky's opposition to
Lenin before 1917
- In turn Trotsky criticises their unwillingness to
back Lenin in the October Revolution
- Stalin appears to be the voice of
reason, gaining supporters and
staying in the background.
- A lot of Stalin's work to win the leadership struggle at this point revolves
around his position as general secretary or Secretariat. Allowing him to
recruit, promote and appoint people gaining him friends and allies. By not
getting in the fray between the others he allows them to pick each other
off
- A lot of Stalin's work to win the leadership struggle at this point revolves
around his position as general secretary or Secretariat. Allowing him to
recruit, promote and appoint people gaining him friends and allies. By not
getting in the fray between the others he allows them to pick each other
off
- Stalin appears to be the voice of
reason, gaining supporters and
staying in the background.
- In turn Trotsky criticises their unwillingness to
back Lenin in the October Revolution
- Zinoviev and Kamenev bring
up Trotsky's opposition to
Lenin before 1917
- Stalin and Bukharin allied to support
the New Economic Policy (NEP) and
cooperation with the Peasantry
- 1926
- Called the Duumvirate
- Zinoviev and Kamenev
are against the
Duumvirate; they rallied
against Stalin and
Bukharin. They failed
however due to Stalin's
control over the
delegates and vast
support network thanks
to his job as Secretariat.
- 1926
- Zinoviev and Kamenev are
expelled from the party for
factionalism in 1927
- They tried to appeal to
workers who were
planning
demonstrations
- They tried to appeal to
workers who were
planning
demonstrations
- 1928: Stalin attacks the Right
wing, his previous allies.
- He suggests industrialisation
and the use of force to make
peasants co-operate
- The right are outvoted and
Bukharin is forced out of the
Politburo and other position
of power
- The right are outvoted and
Bukharin is forced out of the
Politburo and other position
of power
- He suggests industrialisation
and the use of force to make
peasants co-operate
- Stalin supported the
ideology of Socialism in One
Country
- Trotsky supported the ideology of a world revolution
- Trotsky supported the ideology of a world revolution
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