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Stalin's Success (Socio-Cultural Explanations (easy manipulation of…

- - - - To reach his goal, Stalin destroyed the other factions so they would not intervene in his plans
      - Stalin was motivated to gain supreme power
    - - Stalin wanted to be as important as Lenin was
      - Stalin’s success dependent on his political shrewdness and ruthlessness, and the weaknesses and mistakes of his enemies
  - - - Zinoviev and Kamenev were portrayed as careerist and weak-willed
    - - Bukharin blinded by his commitment to NEP
      - Lenin was too late in seeing to danger of Stalin
    - - Trotsky dismissed Stalin as a threat until Stalin had too much power
      - Trotsky was isolated without Lenin
- - - - the 'Red Tsar'
    - - lacked initiative
      - Communist leaders had to stress strict central control
  - - - Stalin's power grew with administrative apparatus
      - Stalin was able to control party congresses, Central Committee and Politburo, as bureaucracy increased
        
        elected local party leaders who would control elections
      - Rober Daniels
        
        'circular flow of power'
      - rather than elections for party and state positions
    - - these workers were the main Bolshevik supporters
      - survivors given administrative posts
      - factory workers replaced by workers with peasant traditions
        
        more for Social Revolutionaries
        
        the elected soviets less likely to support Bolshevik policies and became ignored by government
- - - - the different positions of of leading Bolsheviks were fronts to hide personal want for power
    - - seemed to envisage a mixed economy
      - ignored conflicts between kulaks and nepmen