Stalin's Russia
STRUGGLE FOR POWER AFTER LENIN DIED IN 1924 [Stalin Takes Power]
1.Secretary - as General Secretary of Com. Party installed supporters in important positions.
2.Trotsky unpopular - brilliant but big-headed/ Missed Lenin's funeral (Stalin told him wrong date)/ Ideas of world revolution worried some Russians - too soon.
3.Played off 2 sides of Politburo against each other:
First Stalin allied with Zinoviev and Kamenev [Leftists] = got Trotsky dismissed 1925.
Next he called for 'Socialism in one country', allied with Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky [Rightists] = got Zinoviev and Ka…
