Explain why Stalin not Trotsky emerged as Lenin's successor

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Tom Bell 10 DJB

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Mr McCormick

Explain why Stalin not Trotsky emerged as Lenin’s successor.

When Lenin died he left no clear successor to lead the Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), so it was assumed that Trotsky was going to be Lenin’s successor, because Trotsky was very close to him (his right hand man). Also he was in charge of the red army on the evening of 24th October, 1917, that’s when they took over most of Petrograd which is the Bolsheviks headquarters, and he was the one who also signed and had negotiated the Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918.

Stalin was a normal person like most of the Russians in Russia, he had a poor upbringing, and he was the only Bolshevik who had upbringing like that, so some of the poorer Bolshevik supporters saw him as a man of the people. On the other hand Trotsky was highly educated and he was a thinker (he was very bright).

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Stalin had used his opponents mercilessly, siding with Bukharin over the N.E.P. (New Economic Policy). Even though he did not agree with it (he was going to disagree with it after he gets voted in.). He only did this so that he could get his support over Trotsky, afterwards when he had got Trotsky out of the way he disagreed with Bukharin over the N.E.P.(he said the same things Trotsky’s arguments).

Stalin also had a premium responsibility in the communist party (Bolshevik’s). In the role of being the party’s general secretary, so he was one responsible for giving people ...

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