Origins and Rise to Power: 1924-1929

Lesson 1: How did the Bolsheviks achieve and consolidate power?

The February and October 1917 Revolutions, Lenin's April Theses, Consolidating Bolshevik power, The Civil War 1918-1921, War Communism, Krondstadt Rising, New Economic Policy (NEP), Political repression, Ban on Factions 1921, Death of Lenin 1924

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Lesson 2: How and why did Stalin emerge as leader of the USSR?

Lenin's testament, Contenders for Power, Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Bukharin, Triumvirate, Left Opposition, United Opposition, Why did Stalin emerge? - Historiography; Power Politics, Structuralist Explanations, Socio-Cultural and Ideological.

Lesson Presentation - The Contenders
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Lesson Presentation - Main Issues
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Lesson Presentation - How did Stalin become leader?
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Lesson Presentation - Stalin Essay Guidance
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Extended Reading

Corin (2011). Stalin's defeat of Trotsky - Key Sources
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Corin (2006). Zinoviev and Kamenev
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Pereira (1992). Stalin and the Com. Party in the 1920s
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Service (2011). Stalin - bad but brilliant
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