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Rise of Stalin (Political Circumstances ((insignificant) 1905 Revolution…

- - - - bolsheviks stormed into winter palace to overthrow provisional gov
  - - - closure of democratic constituent assembly
      - cheka (secret police)
      - banned other political parties //enabling act//
      - controlled media (stalin and pravda relations)
      - banned any news against revolution
- - - - damaging remarks about SU members
      - trotsky to be successor
      - remove stalin from secretary general position)
    - - preferred stalin over trotsky; when lenin had stroke, stalin visited often although constantly arguing
        
        trotsky did not succed; stalin not removed
  - - - played a key role in Oct Revolution & Civil War
        
        seen as Lenin's right hand man
        
        threat to Stalin
    - - threat to Stalin
    - - seen as unloyal to Lenin
    - - not in favour: tired of war
      - stalin argued for 'socialism in one country'; got members' support and discredited trotsky
    - - failed to rally support
  - - - often visited lenin; gave an impression that lenin favoured & trusted stalin
      - organised lenin's funeral (1924); made it a grand affair
      - ordered for lenin's body to be embalmed and displayed in a mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
      - gave funeral speech
      - established himself as chief mourner; deeply sorrowful
      - renamed Petrograd to Leningrad
      - bonus: gave trotsky wrong date
    - - secretary general had authority to promote/demote people
        
        replaced allies of his opponents with his own allies
        
        gained control of cheka, nkvd, people's commissariat for internal affairs
      - trotsky's "permanent revolution"
        
        support base shrank
        
        resigned from Red Army (1925)
        
        expelled from Party (1927)
        
        assassinated while in exile in Mexico (1940) because he opposed Stalin through writing
      - stalin's "socialism in one country"
        
        Russia #1; more popular
    - - SU members consisted of moderates (lenin #1 fan) and radicals (new ideas; challenged the system)
        
        stalin took adv and supported both sides
        
        1929: supreme leader of SU