Stalin’s Rise to Power: Ideological Debates and Leadership Struggle (AQA A-Level History): Flashcards
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Date Stalin completed defeat of all rivals
Date Stalin completed defeat of all rivals
December 1929
Fate of most original Bolshevik leaders
Fate of most original Bolshevik leaders
Died violently, not natural causes
Strategy Stalin's opponents used to try to survive
Strategy Stalin's opponents used to try to survive
Humiliating public confessions of past 'errors'
Show trials definition
Show trials definition
Staged legal proceedings w/ forced public confessions
Methods used to extract confessions in show trials
Methods used to extract confessions in show trials
Torture, psychological pressure, threats vs family
Trotsky's fate
Trotsky's fate
Murdered by Stalin's agent in Mexico in 1940
Zinoviev & Kamenev's fate
Zinoviev & Kamenev's fate
Executed following show trial in 1936
Year ban on factionalism imposed
Year ban on factionalism imposed
1921
How Stalin positioned himself in Party politics
How Stalin positioned himself in Party politics
As following principles established by Lenin
Treatment of historical records of Old Bolsheviks
Treatment of historical records of Old Bolsheviks
Falsified to erase their existence & achievements