Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a man deeply devoted to the Soviet cause and the spread and success of Communism. He entered the political scene at the age young of 16, still a student himself, and was once described by Lenin as being the “golden boy of the revolution (Gregory 2010). Unfortunately, Bukharin could not know that his political goals and desires would be his downfall and the cause of his execution on March 14th 1938, betrayed by a man he once considered a friend, Joseph Stalin. Reduced to just

people became the new leaders. This included Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, and Nikolai Bukharin. Stalin manipulated all of them by turning them against each other. First, Stalin created a plan with Kamenev and Zinoviev to remove Leon Trotsky from power. Then Stalin and Bukharin removed Kamenev and Zinoviev from power. Finally Stalin turned on Bukharin, so Bukharin was no longer in control. Stalin was now the sole ruler of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was also intimidating

The Russian Revolution and the purges of Leninist and Stalinist Russia have spawned a literary output that is as diverse as it is voluminous. Darkness at Noon, a novel detailing the infamous Moscow Show Trials, conducted during the reign of Joseph Stalin is Arthur Koestler’s commentary upon the event that was yet another attempt by Stalin to silence his critics. In the novel, Koestler expounds upon Marxism, and the reason why a movement that had as its aim the “regeneration of mankind, should issue

In all of recorded history, there has never been a time where a society has existed in absolute equality. George Orwell displays this truth through his book Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a fictitious novel that follows the story of animals that strive, but fail, to create and live in a truly equal society due to ingrained social statuses and corruption. Orwell’s Animal Farm-- a thinly veiled allegory for the Russian Revolution-- warns of the dangers blind acceptance and the allowance of unsupervised

Stalin’s race to become the all mighty ruler fully started after Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. With Lenin gone, Stalin started to eliminate the other members of the Communist Party: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rykov, Tomsky and Bukharin. He very cleverly switched between the left wing and the right wing, by making alliances with one wing the suddenly breaking with them, only to join the other wing, going against everything that they had just achieved. Stalin knocked out all other

Jashan Kishore Mr. Morrison IB1 History A3 23 January 2015 Class Reading Tasks - Stalin Activity 135: For someone to emerge as a leader from such an intense power struggle, like the one following the revolution in Russia, they would have to have the following qualities: ”Capacity for organization” because they need to be able to organize their supporters and rally support. A leader with a lot of support is useless unless he/she can organize their followers. “Decisiveness” is a must considering the

"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will" said Stalin once. He certainly did have cause to believe in the power of a human's will as he experienced it in himself firsthand, having had extraordinary willpower and perseverance (He didn't call himself "Man of Steel" for nothing, folks), rising up from the lowly station of alcoholic's son in Georgia to one of the biggest monsters in human history, supposedly killing more than Hitler. Exactly how did he do this? Why? And how did his corruption

could still build socialism by using Lenin’s NEP. Stalin and the Centre allied with the Right and Bukharin over the NEP policy, wanting to continue with it. This gave Stalin someone to help him and keep him popular and powerful. However, in 1928 Stalin tuned on Bukharin when it became clear it would be far more useful to him to now want to end the NEP. Stalin used Trotsky’s policies to oppose Bukharin. Even after Lenin’s death, Stalin continued to support the idea of World Revolution and Permanent

Stalin had several methods of social control that gave him such a powerful rule in Russia that even today he still has supporters. Socialist Realism was an essential method to create this, although it was not the most important method of social control. Socialist Realism was the second most important method of social control as it was very effective, but not as effective as the Terror. Social Realism allowed Stalin to be portrayed in a positive light but it was also an attempt to use art forms to

how he used the control of party organisation, luck, the weakness of his opponents, as well as his political abilities and policies, to emerge as Party leader rather than Trotsky. Other contenders for power except Trotsky and Stalin were Kamenev, Bukharin, Rykov and Zinoviev. But how exactly was Stalin able to defeat all of them even though the odds seemed against him? Though Stalin was described as being 'too rude'1