A timeline on Stalin's rise to power during and after Lenin's death between 1924–1929. This includes his actions with Lenin to gain power and his many contradictory alliances with different sides of the party to eradicate threat.
May Lenin’s is incapacitated by his rst of 3 strokes beginning a power vacuum
within the party
December Triumvirate of Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev is formed to block ambitions of
Trotsky
Lenin writes his 600 word ‘testament’ criticising Stalin’s use of brute force in
the civil war against Georgians against Lenins orders and suggesting a return
to collective leadership following his death
1924 Lenin dies and Stalin directs his funeral with Trotsky away in Sukham on the
January Black Sea.
May Stalin developed his theory of ‘Socialism in one country’ based on an old
article of Lenin’s to accuse Trotsky of contradicting this
Lenin's testament is suppressed at the 13th party congress
opposing 1925 Zinoviev and Kamenev criticise Stalin for moving to the right at the 14th party
Trotsky December congress
from the
right 1926 Bukharin and Stalin largely ran Russia forming the ‘Duumvirate’
supporting
the NEP The ‘Literary discussion’ was a theoretical ght that occurred between
contenders through books and pamphlets
Kamenev and Zinoviev and Trotsky form the ‘united opposition’ against
Stalin, organising demonstrations leading them to be accused of factionalism
with Trotsky 1928 The Duumvirate ended with Stalin moving to radical revolutionary politics
defeated
became left Bukharin formed the ‘right opposition’ with Tomsky and Rykov supporting
leaning ‘Socialism in One Country’
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