Joseph Stalin's Rise To Power Research Paper

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Part 1: Plan of Investigation The topic for this internal assessment is "Evaluate the causes for Stalin’s rise to power." To become the sole leader of the Soviet Union in 1929 did actually the people support this person who committed so many atrocious, horrifying and dehumanizing actions against his fellow Russians? The main purpose of it is to investigate the circumstances, actions and events that lead Stalin becoming the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The main reasons for Stalin’s rise to power include his personality, the weaknesses of his opponents, his previous role as General Secretary of the Communist Party, his ideology, the Russian culture and backwardness. Questions like "If …show more content…

Although at the beginning he may have not been Lenin’s obvious successor, he managed for various reasons and hard efforts to emerge as the leader of the Soviet Union,. The main reasons for Stalin’s rise to power were many including his personality, the weaknesses of his opponents, his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party, his mentality and the Russian culture and its backwardness. More analytically, the main reasons for his rise to power …show more content…

This means that Stalin was an advocate of ideas which were close to the ones of Lenin. The reason for the failure of Stalin’s opponents was that they moved away from Leninism. The people followed that kind of ideology and over the years, most of them, had become supporters of communism . Moreover his ideology of "Socialism in one country," proved to be more powerful and likable that Trotsky’s "Permanent Revolution" (1924) programme. Through nationalism and patriotism he turned Trotsky’s ideology against him and made him seem like an enemy eventually wining the trust of people

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