STALIN AGAINST TROTSKY

Power Struggle Issues

KEY ISSUES

Kamenev and Zinoviev joined in 1926 Stalin turned against the Right in 1929

Trotsky and the Left * End of NEP• Peasants should be

forced into collectivisation and Industrialisation

• Permanent Revolution

Stalin+ Triumvirate ( K. + Z.) and the Right (Rykov, Tomsky, Bukharin)*NEP could continue *Peasants should be persuaded* Socialism in one country

HOW DID STALIN ELIMINATE ALL HIS RIVALS? Lenin´s Testament not published Stalin´s Enrolnment ; new members joined the

party; became very loyal to Stalin Stalin´s key posts, personality and brutal

behavior Trotsky discredited; in 1924 Party Conference

condemned his views, in 1925 T. removed from his position as commissar of war, in 1927 expelled from the Communist Party, in 1928 exiled, in 1940 assassinated in Mexico

Kamenev and Zinoviev joined Stalin in the end ( as an opportunist Stalin now presented T.s ideas as his own), but were executed in 1936

Bukharin and the Right discredited in 1929, B. for continuation of NEP, criticised Stalin´s policies as a whole.

By 1929 Stalin´s rule was complete!

INTERPRETATIONS Robert Conquest; Stalin´s aim to gain all

the power bu crushing all the rivals Robert c. Tucker; Stalin wanted to make

himself as important revolutionary as Lenin, but his success also because of weaknesses of his rivals

Edward Carr; Zinoviev and Kamenev too weak to challenge Stalin

Stephen Coe; Bukharin too committed to NEP and that was the reason for his failure, Lenin did not understand the threat of Stalin before 1922

Isaac Deutscher; Trotsky too weak and without Lenin he was too isolated

Robert Daniels; Circular Flow of Power; the red Tsar, Stalin had to use old Tsarist bureaucracy

Sheila Fizpatrick; Patriots attaracted by Bolsheviks approach on foreign interventions