Why did stalin emerge as the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin - page 4
Keywords: Russia 1917- Stalin Bolsheviks Lenin Why did stalin emerge as the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin
By Henry on 26/09/2008
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 4 of 4 pages: 1 2 3 4policies that he had just smashed. And although Bukharin put up a strong defence for the NEP Stalin’s supporters, who were joined on the left who supported the anti-NEP line, outvoted him. Bukharin and the other right-wing leaders were all removed from the Politburo and other party bodies. And in December 1929, as Stalin celebrated his fiftieth birthday he became the undisputed leader of the USSR.





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