Stalins road to power

The Triumvirate 1924-1926 – Removing Trotsky

Stalin

(GenSec)

Lev Kamenev

• Leader of

Moscow party

organisation

• Removed in

1925

Giorgi

Zinoviev

• Leader of

Leningrad party

organisation

• Removed in

1926

Stalin with his supporters decided not to publish Lenins testimony.
Trotsky as the successor of Lenin was removed from power in 1924.
In 1928 he was replaced by Kliment Voroshilov and expelled from
Soviet Union, in 1941 he’s killed in Mexico City.

Formation of Left-wing (United) opposition

Lev Kamenev

Nadia

Krupskaya

Leon Trotsky

Grigori

Zinoviev

Their attempt was to remove Stalin from his office, but Stalin had
support of the Right-wing opposition and Vyacheslav Molotov and
Lazar Kaganovich. Zinoviev was accused of Trotskism and lost his
leadership over the Leningrad party organisation to Sergei Kirov.
Opposition members were splitted all around the country to void any
communication between them.

Right-wing (Moderate) opposition

Nikolai

Bukharin

Alexiei Rykov

• Premier 1924-30

• Supporter of

NEP

Mikhail

Tomsky

• Leader of

the Trade Unions.

There people helped Stalin to defeat Left-wing opposition but later
they were also a threat. Bukharin in 1929 after his article in Pravda
was accused of factionalism. All of them were removed in 1929 on
Party Plenum. Now Stalin had unlimited power.

• Editor of Pravda

• Supporter of

NEP