Stalin How He Kept Power in Russia
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:30:15
Category: / History / European History
Length: 9 pages (2579 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 9 pages (2579 words)
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 …
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…and prisoners worked long hours in any conditions (-40°F, waist deep in snow). Clothing was poor and disease widespread (e.g. Influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria, frostbite). They were at the mercy of brutal and depraved guards; self-mutilation and suicide were common.
This information taken from two sources:
On Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Sclzhenitsyn
La Justice Soviétique - Mora and Zwierniak - 1945
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