How did stalin gain power

1927 stalin wait appointed general secretariat

Background

Stalin (Josef Visarionovich Dzu)

Stalin’s moves to gain power

• Stalin allies with Kamenev & Zinoviev

• Trotsky ‘permanent revolution’

• Stalin “Socialism in One Country”

• Stalin sides with Bukharin

• Trotsky dismissed from Central Committee 1926

• 1927 Kamenev & Zinoviev dismissed

• 1928 Trotsky exiled

• 1929 Bukharin dismissed

• 1936 Kamenev & Zinoviev “Show Trials”

• 1936-1938 Trosky’s trial for treason in absentia

• 1938 Bukharin’s trials

• 1940 Trotsky Assassinated in Mexico 1940

Stalin’s policies

• Socialism in one country
• USSR = feared a takeover western world
• industrialize USSR in 10 years & defense

AT ANY COST!

Stalin’s authoritarian/totalitarian State

Modernization

• USSR = Super Power due to:
  • 5 year plans - increase industrialization
    • 3 five year plans
  • Collectivization in agriculture
    • Lenin did a small amount of collectivization
• Purges

Stalin’s Economic Policies

economic growth and economic self sufficiency

• need disciplined proletariat
• orders were given top down and imposed on the russian people.
• stalin ends NEP and introduces rapid industrialization and collectivization