How important was Stalin’s use of ‘Lenin’s Legacy’ in explaining his victory in the Power Struggle in the years 1924 – 1929? Stalin’s use of Lenin’s Legacy helped him majorly in winning the power struggle from 1924 to 1929. Stalin used the legacy at Lenin’s funeral. He was firstly able to make the speech by making sure that Trotsky was not present at the funeral. Due to Trotsky’s absence Stalin was able to praise the work of Lenin‚ making out that he was going to carry on Lenin’s work‚ which
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Social Democratic party into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Lenin was put in prison for fifteen months for obtaining illegal pamphlets. After he served his term‚ he was exiled to Siberia‚ and got married. They went back to Switzerland in 1900 and started his paper‚ the Iskra. Lenin made a deal with the Germans that he would take power and pull Russia out of the war. Lenin then came to power in October 1917. In 1918‚ the Mensheviks fought the Bolsheviks‚ resulting in a Menshevik loss. Between 1919
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In April 1918 when Trotsky was appointed commissar of war by the government it was a major turning point in the civil war. Whilst Lenin was working on the land that the Bolsheviks had and trying to ensure that it did not fall into the hands of the whites‚ Trotsky began to eradicate people who were against the Bolsheviks. As a military commander he was able to do with the army what he wanted and despite being untrained‚ his philosophy and organisation meant that he excelled in the role. His philosophy
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1856-1964? The October 1917 Revolution is undoubtedly a momentous and extremely important event in Russia’s history‚ one that ousted the centuries-old Tsardom that ruled over the empire‚ in favour of the radical communist movement in the form of the Bolsheviks‚ headed by one Vladimir Iliych Lenin. However‚ did this sudden move from autocracy to a supposedly more progressive democracy actually bring about the modernisation of Russia industrially‚ agriculturally and culturally‚ or was it simply a rebranding
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end of the war. Russia’s Exit Russia’s exit from the war in 1917 made Germanys leaders think victory had to be there’s. From the early months of the war‚ the German government had been in touch wit exiled Russian revolutionaries‚ many of them were Bolsheviks‚ in the hope that they would be used to undermine the Russian war effort against Germany. This did not pay of in the first years of the war. The revolution in February 1917 this toppled the Russian tsarist regime. This raised Germans hopes that
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population that was composed of mainly peasants. The main groups trying to cause revolution in the USSR were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both groups had ideologies that were based on Marxism‚ and they were anti-Tsar with the Mensheviks having a longer-term plan and the Bolsheviks wanting rapid change. The Bolsheviks rose and rapid change commenced as a result. Vladimir Lenin lead the Bolsheviks up until his death‚ and his successor‚ Joseph Stalin‚ kept the idea of rapid change by implementing five-year
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How far were divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of Tsarist rule in the years 1881 – 1905? Internal and external divisions amongst opposing political groups of the Tsar were important and somewhat responsible to the survival of Tsarist Russia. However‚ other factors such as religion and repression were also effective in keeping the Tsar in a state of power. On the one hand‚ one of the main reasons why divisions among its opponents were responsible for the survival of Tsarist
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Why did Stalin rather than Trotsky emerge as leader of the USSR in 1929? A power struggle for control of the Bolshevik party began after Lenin’s death in 1924. Among the contenders for the role‚ two of the most powerful names in this struggle were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Ultimately‚ Stalin was able to secure power and vote out Trotsky by being politically skilful and cunning however most importantly he was lucky. First of all‚ Stalin was lucky. Trotsky remained ill for most of the power
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agree? I agree to this only to a small extent‚ as there were a large number of other factors that affected the successor of Lenin. Josef Stalin was born into a peasant background in Georgia. Stalin was ‘safe’ in the eyes of the public and the Bolsheviks due to his perception of him. He was considered a pedestrian to them due to his background. Stalin wanted the idea of socialism in one country. After Lenin’s death Stalin opposed the idea of socialism spread across the world and the idea of permanent
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Kerensky Early life and activism Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River on 2 May 1881. His father‚ Fyodor Kerensky‚ was a teacher. and director of the local gymnasium. His mother‚ Nadezhda née Adler‚ was the daughter of a nobleman‚ Alexander Adler‚ head of the Topographical Bureau of the Kazan Military District. Kerensky’s father was the teacher of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin); members of the Kerensky and Ulyanov families were friends. In 1889‚ when Kerensky
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