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Stalin’s Rise to Power, Even after his expulsion, Trotsky continued to…

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        One way Stalin manipulated others was he pretended to have been close to Lenin
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        When Lenin fell sick, Stalin made sure to visit him often, to make it look like he was close to Lenin
        
        After Lenin died, Stalin organised Lenin’s funeral, making it a grand affair. He ordered Lenin’s body to be embalmed and displayed in a mausoleum in the Red Square of Moscow
        
        Stalin also gave the funeral speech and established himself as the chief mourner, showng himself deeply sorrowful of the loss of Lenin
        
        Stalin also arranged for the city of Petrograd to be renamed to ‘Leningrad’ in Lenin’s honour
        
        Stalin also kept Trotsky from attending Lenin’s funeral by giving him the wrong date.
        
        To the Russian people it looked like Stalin was the natural successor to Lenin
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        Hence he was able to replace the allies of his opponents, especially Trotsky, with his own allies
        
        Stalin also gained control of the NKVD, and hence Trotsky’s support base shrank considerably
        
        With his reputation destroyed, his ideas discredited, and his lack of support within the Party, Trotsky was forced to resign as the head of the Red Army in 1925
        
        Stalin had Trotsky expelled from the Party in 1927
        
        Hence Stalin had Trotsky assassinated in 1940 while he was in exile in Mexico
        
        Stalin was made Secretary-General of the Party in 1922, and while this appointment was not considered particularly important at the time, it gave Stalin the authority to appoint and re-assign Party members
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        One way Stalin manipulated others was his control over the Party organisation
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        This allowed Stalin to rise to power as he was able to arrange his supporters to be in higher positions in the party, as well as removing the supporters of his opponents
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        The moderates were those who followed Lenin’s leadership and ideaology closely, while the radicals formed new ideas and challenged the system
        
        Members of the Communist Party were divided between the moderates and the radicals
        
        Stalin hence took advantage of these ideaological divisions within the Party, allying himself with both sides at different times
        
        First allied with moderate Poliburo members who saw Trotsky as a radical since he criticised and challenged Party organisation and policies. Hence he caused Trotsky to be expelled from the Party
        
        He then broke troika alliance with Kamenev and Zinoviev, and convinced the moderates that they were plotting with Trotsky to overthrow the government
        
        Kamenev and Zinoviev were discredited and isolated
        
        Then switched over to win the support of the radicals
        
        Bukhara and Rykov, who were moderates, opposed Stalin’s measures for rapid industralisation and central control of the economy
        
        Rest of Politburo sided with Stalin, and removed Bukhara from Politburo in 1929
        
        Rykov removed from the position of Premier in 1930
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        One way Stalin managed to rise to power through manipulation was the exploitation of ideaological divisions
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        This allowed Stalin to get rid of all his political opponents by playing both sides, hence allowing him to Rise to Power easier