After lenin - Leon Trotsky vs. Joseph Stalin
Notes: Lenin set up the Comintern to spread the revolution worldwide
- led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
1922 Bolsheviks party became the Communism party
- Russia became soviet union (USSR)
-Lenin was shot in 1921- never fully recovered
- dies in jan 1924
- Power struggle between stalin and Trotsky
- Guns or Butter debate+ Heavy industry or consumer goods
- struggle continues for 3 years
- stalin is successful , gen secretary incharge of propaganda 1927
- expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- later to be put on trial in abstention for treason
- hunted down in mexico city and killed in 1940
- led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
1922 Bolsheviks party became the Communism party
- Russia became soviet union (USSR)
-Lenin was shot in 1921- never fully recovered
- dies in jan 1924
- Power struggle between stalin and Trotsky
- Guns or Butter debate+ Heavy industry or consumer goods
- struggle continues for 3 years
- stalin is successful , gen secretary incharge of propaganda 1927
- expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- later to be put on trial in abstention for treason
- hunted down in mexico city and killed in 1940
Summary: After the civil war, Lenin set up the Comintern, to spread the revolution worldwide. This led to signing deals with countries to rebuild. After Lenin's death, there was a void for a leader which created a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, which was won by Stalin.
Subjective question: If Lenin was not killed, would Stalin be in power?
Quote: "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin
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