- Lenin led the Bolsheviks into power and started the rise of communism.
- The revolution would face having to continue with their revolution without their leader/role model Lenin to help them through it and face the new role of Trotsky in the near future.
- Lenin's death and Trotsky's takeover kept the revolution going while Robespierre's death led to a drop in morale and the end of the French Revolution.
- I don't think the revolution would have been such a success without Lenin, but a revolution was going to happen eventually, with or without Lenin. I think that a Trotsky or Stalinist revolt would have been a lot different and been bad for the good of Russian society.
Task Two:
- He is afraid of his country falling apart because the other members of the C.C. who can take his place, he does not approve of, especially Stalin and Trotsky who are the main candidates for his position.
- He doesn't like Trotsky because he thinks that Trotsky is too self-assured and preoccupied. I think that Trotsky would have made thinks worse for the Bolshevik party.
- He thinks that Stalin is rude and intolerable. Stalin also would be bad as a leader because he would not be able to think about the people he is leading.
- I think Lenin was favoring Bukharin to take his place in the leading position. Presonally, I would have chosen someone to choose for me but both Bukharin and Pyatakov seem like they would be semi-good candidates because of their good qualities.
