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Mind Map by georgia318, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by georgia318
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Stalin's rise to power 1924-29
- One Party State in the USSR
- Bolshevik consolidation of power
- Governmental structures
- By 1924 gov' developed two main features
- Council of People's Commissars
- Secretariat
- Features of Both
- Established and controlled by Bolsheviks
- under Lenin/ Lenin ruled
- moral authority and strong standing in party= unchallengeable
- moral authority and strong standing in party= unchallengeable
- under Lenin/ Lenin ruled
- Party ruled
- Established and controlled by Bolsheviks
- Council of People's Commissars
- Key Organisation= Politiburo
- inner core of 20 leading members of Communist Party
- inner core of 20 leading members of Communist Party
- By 1922 Soviet Union= 1 party Lenist state
- Membership to this party= essential for all government posts
- Membership to this party= essential for all government posts
- By 1924 gov' developed two main features
- Democratic centralism
- Central feature of Lenin's control over Communist Party
- True democracy in Bolshevik Party
- obedience of the members to the:
- authority
- instructions of the leaders
- authority
- all Bosheviks= genuine revolutionaries but only leaders were educated enough in revolution to understand what needs to be done
- obedience of the members to the:
- Bolsheviks doing what Lenin told them to do
- Central feature of Lenin's control over Communist Party
- Authoritarian rule
- Abolutionism
- returned Russia to what it had been with Tsars
- governmental system in which the levers of power are exclusively in the hands of a group or an individidual
- returned Russia to what it had been with Tsars
- Main features:
- 1 party state
- all other parties were outlawerd
- all other parties were outlawerd
- bureaucratic state
- central powers increased under Lenin
- number of departments and officials grew
- central powers increased under Lenin
- police state
- Checka
- Secret police
- impose government control over the people
- Secret police
- Checka
- Ban on factionalism
- prohibited criticism of leadership of party
- ban on free speech
- prohibited criticism of leadership of party
- destruction of trade unions
- politicizing of the law
- law not= protecting system but extension of political control
- law not= protecting system but extension of political control
- system of purges + show trials
- eg. 1922 public trial of Moscow Clergy
- eg. 1922 public trial of Moscow Clergy
- Concentration Camps
- Held rebel peasants and 'anti-bolsheviks'
- Held rebel peasants and 'anti-bolsheviks'
- Prohibition of public worship
- Orthodox Church looted and closed
- atheism was adopted
- Orthodox Church looted and closed
- Nationalization
- Imposed economic policies
- NEP
- 'War Communism'
- NEP
- Cultural revolution
- Culture to be shaped by the power of the state
- Culture to be shaped by the power of the state
- International isolation
- originally expected Russian revolution to be prelude of the worldwide proletarian uprising.
- Therefore he created Comintern
- adjusted to situation where Soviet Union= isolated marxist
- originally expected Russian revolution to be prelude of the worldwide proletarian uprising.
- 1 party state
- Abolutionism
- Governmental structures
- Bolshevik consolidation of power
- Stalin's emergence as leading contender for power
- Stalin's bid for power
- Trotsky's opposition to Stalin
- The defeat of Trotsky and the Left
- The defeat of the Right Opposition
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