Stalin’s Rise to Power (Paper 3) Essay
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opponents were divided, structural manipulation, weakness of trotsky, luck
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Climbed the Communist party hierarchy between.
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1920-1929
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Stalin's rise to power (Conquest)
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in six years stalin outmanoeuvred a series of opponents
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Right consisted of
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bukharin (NEP pro)
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Left consisted of
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trotsky, zinoviev, kamenev (anti NEP, pro industrialisation)
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Zinoviev and Kamenev mounted a campaign against Trotsky year
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1924
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'Socialism in one country' year
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1925
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Socialism in one country (Ward)
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the bolshevik leaders were trying to find their feet in an unfamiliar world and the doctrine of socialism in one country had the merit of describing things as they really were
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United Opposition year
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1926
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T Z K factionalism issue year
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1927
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Grave quote (Westwood)
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stalin could stand back and watch his rivals dig their own grave, occasionally offering his spade to one of them
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Lenin Enrolment added numbers from the proletariat + year
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240,000, 1924
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Stalin could build his support base through his positions in the...
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orgburo, secretariat
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13th party congress stalin beats trotsky year
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1924
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14th party congress stalin beats bukharin date
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18-31 december 1925
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Stalin support base (Fitzpatrick)
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party machine which stalin controlled
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Stalin's careful organisation (E.H. Carr)
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a triumph not of reason, but of organisation
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Stalin using positions to build base (R.G. Suny)
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stalin used positions to promote his own loyalists within the party and build his base of support
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Trotsky looses position as commissar for military affairs date
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january 1925
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Trotsky bans factionalism year
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1921
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Trotsky losses politburo seat date
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december 1923
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Weakness of Trotsky (Deutscher)
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trotsky refrained from attacking stalin because he felt secure...did not see stalin in 1923 as the menacing, towering figure he was to become
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Date Lenin died
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7 march 1932
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Quote from Stalin at Lenin's funeral
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comrade lenin has ordered us to hold high and keep pure..we vow to lenin we shall fall honourably to fulfil this commandment
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Lenin's testament quote
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stalin has immeasurable power and could not be trusted to use his power wisely...i propose we find a way to remove stalin
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Luck because Lenin died (McCauley)
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stalin has luck on his side..had lenin not died stalin probably would have been sent to the provinces
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Luck because testament not read (Service)
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stalin was lucky since the party central committee ruled that the testament should only be read allowed to heads of the provisional delegates
