Joseph Stalin Dbq

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When Lenin, the founder of the Russian communist party died, Joseph Stalin was accepted as the next leader in May 1924. Stalin was a loyal supporter of Lenin and was appointed to be his secretary. When Stalin introduced a new theory of socialism, Zinoviev and Kamenev disagreed because they believed it opposed the ideas Lenin proposed. This caused the Triumvirate to break apart while Stalin formed an ally with Bukharin. With people disagreeing with Stalin, he grew afraid of rivals which caused him to remove Trotsky from the government and from his position in the Red Army. Zinoviev and Kamenev kept disagreeing with Stalin and Bukharin, causing them to be removed from the Politburo. In 1926, the Kulan Grain Strike occurred, in which peasants became wealthy and …show more content…

In 1927, grain prices finally lowered but rumors say that there could be a war with Germany, which was why people were buying more grain than last year. When Stalin did not accept the NEP in 1928, Stalin split with Bukharin and planned against him by removing Bukharin supporters from the party. Stalin proposed an idea of grain requisitioning to the peasants to decrease grain production but this quickly stopped when Stalin lost to Bukharin, making him stoping the requisitioning. In October of 1928, Stalin proposed his idea of his Five Year Plan, which states his hopes of increasing iron and steel production. To do this, Stalin made sure workers won’t slack off by forcing them to work, even if they’re sick. Anyone who did not follow this was supposedly to be working against the state and could be either executed or imprisoned. In 1928 Stalin published “The Year of the Great Turn” which outlined the end of Lenin’s ideas of NED. Near the end of 1928, many farmers were forced to work to maximize production under the watch of 25,000 industrial

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