CHRONOLOGY OF SOVIET LEADERSHIP

Lenin died in January 1924, and the general expectation was that Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davydovitch Bronstein, would succeed Lenin as the Soviet leader. Josip Stalin, whose real name was Josip Visserionovich Dzhugashvili, however, also had a claim on the Soviet leadership. At the time of Lenin's death, there was a conflict within the Communist Party as to the nature of the Communist Revolution. Trotsky advocated a worldwide revolution, which would result in the supremacy of the proletariat over the peasantry. Stalin, by contrast, favored a communist experiment which would be confined to Russia, in which peasant cooperation, as opposed to domination would be sought, and in which foreign capital and skills would be used.

Two other high party leaders, L. B. Kaminev and G. E. Zinoviev, joined Stalin in opposing Trotsky. The triumverate of Kaminev

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a military attack by 14 countries (including the United States) in the aftermath of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Lenin held that one must cope with realities, without betraying one's idealism. The NEP was ended by Stalin in 1928. Stalin's economic plan accorded priority to heavy industry, at the expense of consumeroriented industry. In such an economy, there would be few consumer goods to induce the farmers to produce for exchange. To solve this dilemma, Stalin implemented a ruthless policy of forced collectivization in agriculture. Stalin's rule in the USSR was not so much socialist in character, as it was repressive and dictatorialtwo words which became synonymous with communism, as a result of Stalin's rule. Under Stalin, the USSR was not a dictatorship of the proletariat; it was simply the dictatorship of one man. Centralized planning was implemented under Stalin, as a means of industrializing the Soviet economy. With respect to the development of heavy industry, the policy was highly effective. The Stalinist policies, however, shortchanged the Soviet consumer, on the one hand, and failed to prepare the Soviet economy for the transitions required in the latetwenti
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