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Leadership struggle - Coggle Diagram
Leadership struggle
Ideological Orthodoxy
- 1917-28 com party included members who believed in diff things
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- 1928 com party committed to two ideas:
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- 1924 - S & B advocated for idea that SU could construct socialism w/o a global revolution
→ argued this was correct leninist idea & T, Z & K were Trotskyites
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- !928 argued time was right to abandon NEP & transform soviet economy
- argued Ls commitment to NEP was PRAGMATIC - 'last a long time but not forever'
- economy stopped growing & S argued to intro. a more radical policy
- 1928 - argued Peasants should work on state-owned farms & profit be used to industrialise SU
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significant change bc L tolerated diff views prepared to work w/ ppl he disagreed w.
S contrasted - Trotskyites & B followers threat to party
→ Z, K & T arrested
Patronage system
- 1923 issued an 'approved list' for who could attend party congress
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- 1923 - 1/3 of delegates selected from S list
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- S had number of positions in party - allowed him to win support
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- 1920s party had role of admin & implementing decisions of polit
- party members = Apparatchiks , worked for party = apparatus
- party also became privileged
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Party Membership
- 1924 - Lenin Enrolment created and allowed 128,000 ppl to join com party
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CONCLUSION
- LS of 1920 transformed party by 1928
- S emerged as leader by creating *ideological orthodoxy, destroying opps authority & transforming com party
- changed com party from a pluralistic organisation to an individualistic dominance
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