AS History: Contenders for Power

Stalin
1. Background
  1. Understood needs of peasants as had peasant upbringing
  2. Known as the 'grey blur'
    1. Nothing outstanding or controversial
  3. Religious education
  4. Raided banks for party funds
  5. Paranoid
2. Powerbases
  1. General Secretary of the Secretariat
  2. Responsible for organising Politburo discussions
  3. Head of
3. Lenin's Testament
  1. Criticised for disobeying orders
4. Economic and Ideological Stance
Trotsky
1. Background
  1. Exiled for being politically radical
  2. Originally a Menshevik
    1. Became a Bolshevik in April 1917
  3. Planned the Oct revolution
2. Economic and Ideological Stance
3. Lenin's Testamament
  1. Most 'outstanding' member
  2. Arrogant
4. Powerbases
Zinoviev & Kamenev
1. Background
  1. Zinoviev was Jewish, poorly educated
  2. Zinoviev was Lenin's closest ally during exile
    1. Wrote books together
  3. Neither supported the takeover by force in 1917
  4. Zinoviev remained in a hotel with prostitutes throughout Civil War
  5. Kamenev from a working class background
  6. Kamenev known for strong caution
  7. Kamenev collaborated with Lenin until 1917
2. Powerbases
3. Lenin's Testament
  1. Lenin noted their disloyalty to the party
  2. "The October episode of Zinoviev and Kamenev was not, of course, accidental"
4. Economic and Ideological Stance
Bukharin
1. Background
2. Economic and Ideological Stance
3. Lenin's Testament
4. Powerbase

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