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Leadership Contest

Leadership Contest. Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) Trotsky became involved in underground activities as a teenager. He was soon arrested, jailed and exiled to Siberia where he joined the Social Democratic Party. His first post was as foreign commissar

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Leadership Contest

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  1. Leadership Contest

  2. Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) Trotsky became involved in underground activities as a teenager. He was soon arrested, jailed and exiled to Siberia where he joined the Social Democratic Party. His first post was as foreign commissar He was then made war commissar and in this capacity, built up the Red Army Lev Davidovich Bronstein

  3. His political life began at the age of sixteen when, he participated in student activities at Moscow University related to the Russian Revolution of 1905. By age 20, he was a member of the Moscow Committee of the party. After the revolution, he became editor of Pravda. Nikolai Bukharin

  4. Zinoviev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901 and was a member of its Bolshevik faction from the time of its creation in 1903. elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split He also became the Chairman of Comintern when it was created in March 1919. Grigory Zinoviev

  5. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1901 In 1918, Kamenev became chairman of the Moscow Soviet and soon thereafter Lenin's deputy at the Sovnarkom (government) and the Council of Labor and Defense. Lev Kamenev

  6. Born in Saratov in 1881 to a peasant family He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1898 and supported its Bolshevik faction Rykov returned from Siberia after the February Revolution of 1917 and re-joined the Bolsheviks, although he remained skeptical of their more radical inclinations. Rykov was appointed People's Commissar (minister) of the Interior Alexei Rykov

  7. December 18, 1878 - March 5, 1953 Became Stalin in 1913 His mother was born a serf, his father a cobbler He spent the years as an activist and on a number of occasions was arrested and exiled to Siberia. Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili

  8. Task • As a candidate you must prepare for your statement – a 2 min (max.) speech • Questions from the other teams • Judges vote

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