Stalin and Trotsky Power Struggle

By 16keetf
  • Appointed Commissar for Nationalities

    Appointed Commissar for Nationalities

    Holds position until 1923
  • Appointed Commissar of State Control

    Appointed Commissar of State Control

  • Appointed Commissar of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection

    Appointed Commissar of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection

  • Appointed General Secretary of Central Committee

    Appointed General Secretary of Central Committee

    Of Communist Party
  • Lenin's Death

    Lenin's Death

  • Begins Manoeuvres to isolate & block Trotsky in Politburo

    Begins Manoeuvres to isolate & block Trotsky in Politburo

    Politburo - 1 of 3 executive organs of government
    General Secretary of the Communist Party was the only full member of all three bodies
  • Zinoviev and Kamenev form triumvirate to rule USSR

    Zinoviev and Kamenev form triumvirate to rule USSR

    Triumvirate - a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals, each a triumvir Rykov and Tomsky also anti-Trotsky
  • Attacks moderates in Politburo over industrialisation pace in NEP

    Attacks moderates in Politburo over industrialisation pace in NEP

    Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky attack Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky Stalin supports moderates
  • And Bukharin form duumvirate to rule USSR

    And Bukharin form duumvirate to rule USSR

    Duumvirate - a coalition of two people having joint authority or influence
  • Politburo size increased: all new members are supporters

    Politburo size increased: all new members are supporters

    Increased from 6 to 9 All new members are supporters of Stalin
  • Denounce lack of debate in Party

    Denounce lack of debate in Party

    Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev combine for first time Condemned as "traitors of the revolution" by Stalin
  • Removed from Politburo

    Removed from Politburo

    Zinoviev removed as Chairman of Leningrad Soviet
    Kamenev removed as Chairman of Moscow Soviet
    Zinoviev expelled from Communist Party
    Kamenev removed from Politburo
  • Expelled from Communist Party

    Expelled from Communist Party

    Kamenev expelled from Communist Party
  • Control of majority of Politburo

    Control of majority of Politburo

  • Turns against Bukharin

    Turns against Bukharin

    Bukharin and supporters labelled "right-wing deviationists"
  • Exiled to Central Asia

    Exiled to Central Asia

  • Sole survivng member of Lenin's orginal Politburo

    Sole survivng member of Lenin's orginal Politburo

  • Expelled from Soviet Union

    Expelled from Soviet Union