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USSR Industrialisation and the Five Year Plans under Stalin

Struggle for power

Explain:

1. How Stalin came to power in Communist Russia in 1924.
2. Why Stalin, and not Trotsky, emerged as Lenin's successor.

Stalin won the struggle for power

Trotsky was exiled and eventually murdered

Life in Lenin's Russia

Life improved for many ordinary people in Lenin's Russia. But Russia was now a dictatorship and anyone who openly criticised Communism risked losing their life.

Five aspects of the communist state

The Bolsheviks wanted to set up a Communist state. This comprised five aspects:

1. Peace - as promised, Lenin made the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany although it meant that Russia lost vast amounts of its best industrial and agricultural land in Poland and the Ukraine.
2. Communist economy - the Bolsheviks gave the land previously owned by the nobles to the peasants, and factories were handed over to workers' committees.
3. Communist laws - the Bolsheviks banned religion; brought in an eight-hour day for workers, as well as unemployment pay and pensions; abolished the teaching of history and Latin, while encouraging science; and allowed divorce.
4. Communist propaganda - there was a huge campaign to teach everyone to read. Agit trains' went around the country showing communist newsreels and giving lectures to teach peasants about Communism.
5. Dictatorship - Lenin dismissed the Constituent Assembly, which was the parliament that the Provisional Government had arranged, and declared the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (which was really, the dictatorship of Lenin). A secret police force called the Cheka arrested, tortured and killed anybody who tried to destroy the Communist state.

Test yourself: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/quiz/q23901549

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