Ending Section 2
Ending Section 2. By ken harper. Stalin gains power. Lenin's sudden death in 1924. Set off power struggle among Communist leaders. The chief contenders were trotskey and joseph Stalin . Trotsky. Brilliant Marxist thinker Skillful speaker An architect of the Bolshevik revolution. Stalin.
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Ending Section 2 By ken harper
Stalin gains power • Lenin's sudden death in 1924. • Set off power struggle among Communist leaders. • The chief contenders were trotskey and joseph Stalin
Trotsky • Brilliant Marxist thinker • Skillful speaker • An architect of the Bolshevik revolution
Stalin • Was neither a scholar nor an orator • A shrewd political operator • Behind the scenes organizer
5 year plans • Stalin set out to make the soviet union into a modern industrial power. • Suffered defeats because of its economic backwardness. • Aimed building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output. • Developed a command economy, government officials made all basic economic decisions.
Revolution in Agriculture • Stalin brought agriculture under government control. • He forced peasants off there private plots and live on state-owned farms or on collectives, large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. • Allowed to keep homes and personal belongings. Peasants resisted by killing animals
The Great Purge • Stalin harbored obsessive fears that rival party leaders were plotting against him. • 800,000 people were executed in the years Stalin was in power.