Stalins Rise to Power
Stalin first became interested in politics when as a theology student; he began reading illegal the works of political philosopher Karl Marx. He eventually gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. After becoming involved in the movement, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin was drawn to the more militant Bolsheviks, who were led by Vladimir Lenin. Upon the Bolsheviks upheaval of the monarchy, Stalin became an active member of the new government and held many different influential positions. He was eventually elected a member of the Communist Party's highest decision making body, the Politurbo, and the Central Committee's Orgburo (Organizational Bureau). The Orgburo supervised the work of local party committees. It was the next body in the Communist Party hierarchy after the Politurbo. In 1922, after Lenin suffered a stroke, St
Through political maneuvering, Stalin was able to discount and suppress Lenin's testament, as well as join with Kamenev and Zinoviev to gain control of the party. Stalin's main reason for the collaborating with Kamenev and Zinoviev was to form a strong opposition against Trotsky, who was Stalin's long time rival and a candidate to succeed Lenin as head of the Bolshevik party. Trotsky was a strong supporter of Marxism and the theory of world revolution. Trotsky also objected strongly to Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country," which claimed that the success of Russia's revolution did not depend on the revolution spreading to the rest of the world. It was this difference of opinion, along with Stalin's shrewdness and thirst for authoritarian power that ended Trotsky's ascension in Communist Party. In 1925, Stalin again used his shrewd political maneuvering ability to join with Bukharin and Rykov in a new coalition against his former partners Zinoviev and Kamenev. They in turn joined with Trotsky. Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev formed
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