Chapter 9 + 10 - Leadership Struggle

Themes: Ideology Weakness of opponents Stalin's strengths Contentious issues - NEP - Future of leadership - Soc in 1 country vs Permanent Revolution

May 1922

Lenin’s first stroke

When was Lenin’s death?

21st Jan 1924

When was Lenin’s funeral?

27th Jan 1924

Only __ days after Lenin’s death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honour

5

In ___ ____, Trotsky published the ____ __ _____

• Oct 1924

• Lessons of October

As General Secretary, Stalin directly commanded ___ officials, the ____ and the youth ____, as. well as having direct access to all personal files.

• 700

• OGPU

• Komsomol

Although he could have attacked Stalin, Trotsky chose not to during the ______ Party Congress in ___ ____, which was a fatal error.

• Thirteenth

• May 1924

What was Bukharin’s nickname?

Lenin’s golden boy

Since 1917, Bukharin was the editor of ___, allowing him a powerful voice in party politics. However he was stripped of this and all other government positions in ___ ____ by Stalin

• pravda

• April 1929

In ____ Trotsky was forced out of Commissar of War, but Stalin rejected calls to remove T from party as to appear moderate

1925

At the ______ Party Congress (___ _____) K + Z call for vote of no confidence in Stalin’s leadership

• fourteenth

• Dec 1925

In the ______ party conference in ___, Stalin cut taxes on peasants by __%.

• fourteenth

• 1925

• 25%

In the 14th Party conference (__) Stalin received ____ votes compared to __ (united opposition), showing their increased marginalisation.

• 1925

• 559

• 56

When did Stalin survive a vote of no confidence launched by K+Z?

Dec 1925

Stalin published his book, __ _____ __ _____, in ___, where he consolidated his arguments for Soc in 1

• On Questions of Leninism

• 1926

When do K + Z join Trotsky to form ‘United Opposition’?

1926

Despite offering to resign as General Secretary in __ ____, Stalin had an inbuilt majority in key party committees.

Dec 1926

In Spring ___, Stalin was criticised for the crushing of Chinese communists in ____ and _____

• 1927

• Shanghai

• canton

In the ________ party conference in ___Trotsky, Kamnev and Zinoviev were expelled from the party alongside __ other ‘_____’

• fifteenth

• 1927

• 75

• oppositionists

The ___ grain procurement was only __ of expected, despite a good harvest

• 3/4

• 1928

1929 harvest was __% lower due to the start of forced collectivisation.

10%

When was Stalin the undisputed leader of USSR

Dec 1929

When were Rykov + Tomsky removed from Politburo?

Dec 1930

Lenin Enrolment (___-__) recruited ______ new party members, who were mainly uneducated proletariat, and supported Stalin.

• 1923-5

• 500,000

How large was the bureaucracy compared to the proletariat?

2:1

In ___ Bukharin wrote in Pravda in defence of _____

• 1929

• kulaks

Stalin’s nickname

Comrade index card

In 1926, Russia produced only __% of the exports of 1913

55%

In 1926, the NEP resulted in __ ______ people being unemployed

1.5 million

Name 5 Permanent Revolution defeats

• spartacist uprising

• hungary

• latvia

• finland

• Russo-polish war