The Left
Govt & opposition
Stalin Lenin Castro
Gen Sec of Party Controls Party and Closure of Constituent
Triumvirate (Castro i/c)
govt after Lenins death Assembly Jan 1918
Bolsheviks dominate Council
Elimination of rivals in power of Peoples Commissars. Only
Old parties abolished
struggle Mensheviks & Left SR´s
tolerated.
Party leaders purged from
Lenin´s secret police continued:
other parties after Terror TU’s directly controlled
OGPU=NKVD=KGB
following 1918 assass attempt
Strict control within 5 Yr Plans,
kulaks, collectivisation, MTS CHEKA set up CDR´s
dependency, Gulags
Purges: Great purge, post WW2 War Communism placed strict
purge, Doctors Purge Cult of control over peasants Revolutionary courts
personality to increase dominance especially
Trotsky’s military discipline
Castro takes over Pres & PM roles
of Civil war very strict
Matos jailed
Foreign opp: US/nationalisation/Bay
of Pigs
Govt & opposition
Stalin Lenin Castro
Gen Sec of Party Controls Party and Closure of Constituent
Triumvirate (Castro i/c)
govt after Lenins death Assembly Jan 1918
Bolsheviks dominate Council
Elimination of rivals in power of Peoples Commissars. Only
Old parties abolished
struggle Mensheviks & Left SR´s
tolerated.
Party leaders purged from
Lenin´s secret police continued:
other parties after Terror TU’s directly controlled
OGPU=NKVD=KGB
following 1918 assass attempt
Strict control within 5 Yr Plans,
kulaks, collectivisation, MTS CHEKA set up CDR´s
dependency, Gulags
Purges: Great purge, post WW2 War Communism placed strict
purge, Doctors Purge Cult of control over peasants Revolutionary courts
personality to increase dominance especially
Trotsky’s military discipline
Castro takes over Pres & PM roles
of Civil war very strict
Matos jailed
Foreign opp: US/nationalisation/Bay
of Pigs
