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Stalin's rise to power 1924-29
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History Mind Map on Stalin's rise to power 1924-29, created by georgia318 on 12/04/2013.
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Stalin's rise to power 1924-29
One Party State in the USSR
Bolshevik consolidation of power
Governmental structures
By 1924 gov' developed two main features
Council of People's Commissars
Secretariat
Features of Both
Established and controlled by Bolsheviks
under Lenin/ Lenin ruled
moral authority and strong standing in party= unchallengeable
Party ruled
Key Organisation= Politiburo
inner core of 20 leading members of Communist Party
By 1922 Soviet Union= 1 party Lenist state
Membership to this party= essential for all government posts
Democratic centralism
Central feature of Lenin's control over Communist Party
True democracy in Bolshevik Party
obedience of the members to the:
authority
instructions of the leaders
all Bosheviks= genuine revolutionaries but only leaders were educated enough in revolution to understand what needs to be done
Bolsheviks doing what Lenin told them to do
Authoritarian rule
Abolutionism
returned Russia to what it had been with Tsars
governmental system in which the levers of power are exclusively in the hands of a group or an individidual
Main features:
1 party state
all other parties were outlawerd
bureaucratic state
central powers increased under Lenin
number of departments and officials grew
police state
Checka
Secret police
impose government control over the people
Ban on factionalism
prohibited criticism of leadership of party
ban on free speech
destruction of trade unions
politicizing of the law
law not= protecting system but extension of political control
system of purges + show trials
eg. 1922 public trial of Moscow Clergy
Concentration Camps
Held rebel peasants and 'anti-bolsheviks'
Prohibition of public worship
Orthodox Church looted and closed
atheism was adopted
Nationalization
Imposed economic policies
NEP
'War Communism'
Cultural revolution
Culture to be shaped by the power of the state
International isolation
originally expected Russian revolution to be prelude of the worldwide proletarian uprising.
Therefore he created Comintern
adjusted to situation where Soviet Union= isolated marxist
Stalin's emergence as leading contender for power
Stalin's bid for power
Trotsky's opposition to Stalin
The defeat of Trotsky and the Left
The defeat of the Right Opposition
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