Research Paper On Leon Trotsky

It also appears that Trotsky did not realise his removal from his position of Head of the Army – by Stalin’s suggestion – was part of the latter’s plan to clinch power and Robert’s report states that Trotsky made ‘no protest’ in regards to his new post of being in charge of the electrification of

Trotsky had one great weakness which led to his downfall; he was unpopular. The other Communist leaders were united by their dislike of Trotsky. They resented his earlier non-Bolshevik past and his sudden rise with the party after 1917. Many other Bolsheviks also hated Trotsky, because of the fact that he had been a Menshevik. Therefore Trotsky had no real allies to help him secure power, and always had people plotting against him. An example of this is when Zinoviev and Kamenev decided that they should take over as the new leaders. They decided to use Stalin and his control of party organisation to help them, and these three formed the Triumvirate. This ultimately prevented Trotsky from becoming

Once eliminating Trotsky, Stalin’s idea of, “socialism in our country,” inevitably meant that Russia needed strength. The productions in the USSR had almost reached pre-war levels by the mid-1920s, but the population of Russia had also increased by 20 million people. No matter, Stalin assured that maximum efforts and resources would be given to the expansion and strengthening of Russia herself rather than an effort to start a revolution elsewhere. This is explained in his famous 1931 speech, gaining power for himself. The people had nowhere else to turn to and needed a leader. Stalin was there and knew what to do to make the people interested in his ideas, thus acquired their trust and control. From these ideas, he created his first

Vladimir Lenin played a significant role in the replacement of the monarchical Russian Empire with the ‘people-governed’ Soviet Union. Driven to act by the desperate situation present in Russia under the rule of Czar Nicholas II, he fought for the victory of the Marxist ideals. Despite being opposed and even exiled, Lenin managed to rise to the head of the Bolshevik party and secure his position as the head of the government. He used his power to attempt to organize, modernize, and reform the Soviet Union. His policies were necessary for the Soviet Union to regain strength and to return to the world map as a formidable power.

Joseph Stalin was communist dictator party leader who use deception to gain his power and violence to rise as dictator. He came to power in Soviet Union, after the previous leader Lenin have died. Russia had to face the circumstance of a need for a new successor in Lenin place, in which obviously there would be multiple people competing for Lenin successor. Stalin was very smart during his time, he was able to outmaneuver his rivals to rise to the top. Stalin assassinated his rival Trotsky and those who oppose him in his conquest for power. He was also able accomplish in photoshopping in his time, manipulating a photo of Lenin to recreation a new

The Russian Revolution is a widely studied and seemingly well understood time in modern, European history, boasting a vast wealth of texts and information from those of the likes of Robert Service, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Allan Bullock, Robert Conquest and Jonathan Reed, to name a few, but none is so widely sourced and so heavily relied upon than that of the account of Leon Trotsky, his book “History of the Russian Revolution” a somewhat firsthand account of the events leading up to the formation of the Soviet Union. There is no doubt that Trotsky’s book, among others, has played a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the events of The Revolution; but have his personal predilections altered how he portrayed such paramount

Joseph Stalin, born December 1878, was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, which was created in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik revolution. They overthrew the new Russian provisional government and he was appointed the General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party’s central committee in 1922. After many years of suffering, Vladimir Lenin passed away on January 21st, 1924. After Lenin’s death, there was a massive power struggle, which resulted in the majority of the Politburo either exiled or executed by Stalin. At the end of his rule, nearly 55 percent of the population considered it an end of terror. However, support for Stalin has actually increased since the end of the

Trotsky even helped Lenin to create and maintain the Bolshevik dictatorship of Russia in 1917. Opposition could take over and execute Lenin, if they won the Civil War. However Trotsky prevented it, by organizing and forming huge Red Army in order to fight the whites to make Lenin's dictatorship safe from overthrowing. There was a massive rising in Kronstadt, because the sailors were unhappy with the lack of progress, the famine and the terror and they demanded free speech and press, sale of peasant grain, free elections for soviets and free trade unions. Of course this was impossible in Communist regime and consequently Trotsky used his Red Army to destroy and crush rebels, because he was worried that dissent might spread when the ice around the base thawed and let the sailors leave and again he made dictatorship safe.

His was to make an alliance with Germany. In 1941 Hitler broke the agreement and invaded the Soviet Union. So Stalin allied with Zinoviev and Kamenev, which made him have total control over all party members. Stalin then conducted a reign of terror by having people arrested during the night. Potential rivals of Joseph Stalin were accused of aligning with capitalist nations, convicted of being “enemies” and were instantly executed. This showed his followers that he was very powerful. (Say Media.Inc , 2015). Although Stalin was a cruel leader he also help the Russians. He gave women the education and the jobs that they needed. This made people think he’s not just cold hard killer but also a great political leader for his

During the Russian Revolution Stalin rose throughout the ranks. Stalin appointed many of his close friends in government positions. In 1922 the Soviet Union was formed, however when Lenin died two men rivaled to be leader. The two men where Joseph Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin ruse the communist party to exiling Trotsky. Joseph Stalin came to complete rule in the later 1920’s. The first thing Stalin did was removing the older party members and exiling anyone who opposed him. They Government changed since they started to fear Stalin and didn’t dare speak or step out of line. Stalin also started his purges.

His influence on the revolution, how they contribution to the revolution? During the October revolution he joined the Bolsheviks and eventually became a leader in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Due to their role in the failed uprising in July, Bolshevik leaders were arrested while Lenin fled to Finland; the leaderless Bolsheviks looked to Trotsky to lead them, but within weeks Trotsky was arrested and imprisoned. With Lenin exiled, Trotsky began arming, recruiting and disciplining the red guard Bolsheviks and by October was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. Given his role as leader of the Military Revolutionary Committee he was primarily responsible for organising the movement of Red Guard and the issuing, weapons and the success of the November Revolution.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 in Kherson, Ukraine. He excelled academically from a young age and in 1896 moved to Nikolayev to complete his last year of schooling. Here, he was introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx and joined “The Orchard Commune” in which he was able to discuss revolutionary ideas with fellow students.

There he joined a group of Russian Social Democrats working with Vladimir Ulyanov, the founder of the Bolshevik Party, and who, as Lenin, would become the first leader of communist Russia. Their main project at the time was production of the revolutionary newspaper Iskra (The Spark). Because of his intellectual brilliance and his remarkable abilities as a speaker, writer and organiser, Trotsky quickly assumed a leading role.

Everyone is a product of their circumstance, yet, important individuals can shape events within their times. The statement “individuals are a product of their times” can be related to Leon Trotsky a Marxists revolutionary whom is famous for his participation in the upheaval of Tsarist Russia throughout the early nineteen hundreds. Born into a period of turbulent social and political change due to the Russian industrial revolution, Trotsky was shaped by his context and events in his early life. However, it is to a greater extent that Trotsky was a significant player and shaper of events within his later life. Trotsky cemented himself as an important Historical figure who was a product of their time due to his participation in Russia 's revolution and the series of important events leading to the revolution, his ability to successfully lead an army of over 5 million in the Russian civil war, intellectual literature on Marxism and revolutionary powers and his position as a Commissar of War. Though this statement was not always relevant to Trotsky, during the struggle for power in the 1920s he was decimated by Joseph Stalin whom had far great ability to politically maneuver his way to power. Trotsky has also been criticised for his inability to formulate realistic policies during the industrialisation debate of the 1920s. He continued to espouse ‘permanent revolution’ at a time when such a policy had little prospect of success. Trotsky’s life after exile proved to be irrelevant

Leon Trotsky was the earliest political symbol of the movement. After the expulsion of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in 1927-8, he became suspicious. In the 1920s, the government favored realist art. Pravda had even complained that taxes were used to but art from unpopular artists. It was in 1934 that Constructivism was completely replaced by Socialist Realism. Even so, Lissitzky, Rodchenko and Stepanova still produced work for their