Stalin's Rise to Power

The short-term events leading to Stalin's rise to power.

Script written by Russel Tarr:

Inside the Politburo, Stalin formed a three man team (known as the 'Triumvirate' or the 'Troika') with Zinoviev and Kamenev. These three were "old Bolsheviks" - in other words, they had been behind Lenin and the Bolshevik cause right from the very start. Trotsky, in contrast, had been a Menshevik before 1917.
▪ The triumvirate resisted Trotsky's demands for party reform, depicting it as a betrayal of Lenin's final wish to preserve the unity of the party. Any Trotsky supporter within the party was assigned a post as far from Moscow as possible. Early in 1925 Stalin and his allies forced Trotsky to resign as Minister of War.
Stalin then allied himself with Bukharin and other right-wing members of the Politburo and struck against his former allies on all questions of policy.
▪ As a result, Zinoviev and Kamenev patched up their differences with Trotsky in 1926.
▪ Stalin then accused Zinoviev and Kamenev of plotting against the party and expelled them both from the Politburo. The following year, Trotsky was sent into exile.(1927)
In late 1927, Stalin then turned against the Right, dismissing local officials who were known to supporters of Bukharin and rejecting the NEP in favour of a programme of agricultural collectivisation and massive industrialisation.
▪ Bukharin refrained from criticising Stalin in public, but secretly attempted to form an alliance with Kamenev and Zinoviev, arguing that unless he was ousted Stalin would eventually destroy the communist revolution ("[Stalin is] an unprincipled intriguer who subordinates everything to his appetite for power. At any given moment he will change his theories in order to get rid of someone").
▪ Nevertheless, by this time Stalin had appointed so many supporters to senior positions in the party that his position was unassailable. In 1929 Bukharin was deprived of the chairmanship of the Comintern and expelled from the Politburo.

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[mdk124]

ermm theres 2 characters here my teacher didn't really mention about... bukharin and tomsky?

[Paperbagman555]

haha thanks man. i Think i passed my exam thx to you an wikipedia! =D

love the packman, however my only criticism was the fact that the sound is really low.

[MobHeataEnt]

Stalin was one evil motherfucker. He just completely back stabbed and had no respect for the Old Bolsheviks, neither for Lenin. He was just power hungry. After he got Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Kamenev (who was Trotsky's brother in-law) to go against Trotsky, he than killed all of them, not just them but their wives and families, and all the old Bolsheviks as well. I doubt he ever cared for Russia, he was power hungry from the day he was born.

[07NFFC07]

Tri-um-vir-ate

[Ketchup117]

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[JasminLeblanc]

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[GMNives]

A very clever presentation. I rather enjoyed that!