{"id":6426,"date":"2016-02-21T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:55:22","slug":"same-party-different-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2016\/02\/21\/same-party-different-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Party, Different Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being of the same political party, Stalin and Lenin express very different opinions on the Soviet Union\u2019s issues. Stalin\u2019s document \u201cConcerning the Presentation of the National Question\u201d from May 8th<\/sup> 1921 describes the differences of the national questions as given by the Communists in relation to the national question adopted by the leaders of the Second and Two and-a-Half Internationals, Socialists, Social-Democrats, Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, and other parties. He explains that they differ in four points, then goes on to explain those points. First, Stalin explains the merging of the National question with the general question of the liberation of the colonies as a whole. Secondly, Stalin determines the vague slogan of \u201cthe rights of nations to self-determination\u201d to mean a nation\u2019s right to autocracy. Thirdly, he explains a connection between national and colonial questions of the rule of capital. He explains that in order to \u201cwin the war\u201d there is a need to revolutionize enemies. Lastly, Stalin describes the need for equality of nations and not just \u201cnational equality of rights\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lenin criticizes Stalin\u2019s Presentation of the National Question in his own writings \u201cOn the Questions of the Nationalities or of Autonomization\u201d on December 30th<\/sup> of 1922. He declares the question of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics to be the question of autotomizing. He outwardly criticizes Stalin\u2019s want for autonomization and claims it to be \u201cwrong and untimely\u201d. He also questions Stalin\u2019s explanation behind the want for autonomization. Lenin goes on to explain that Stalin did not show enough concern in taking measures to defend those from other nations, and outwardly declares the Soviet\u2019s fatal role to be Stalin and his preoccupation with the administrative aspect and by his rage against social-nationalism.<\/p>\n

One common thread in both documents is that both Stalin and Lenin declare imperialism as the common enemy. However, other than having a common enemy, Lenin throughout his writing makes a great effort to show his disagreement with Stalin\u2019s actions and opinions. He even goes as far as questioning Stalin’s understanding of “nationalism”. \u00a0Lenin also seems to find\u00a0Stalin\u2019s actions and explanations behind his actions to be unsound. With that, Stalin\u2019s document provide some insight into his arguably irrational mindset in some areas, as Lenin points out. Lenin sheds light on these issues by asking why Stalin believes autonomy to be the best option, and why then? Also, Lenin\u2019s outward disapproval of Stalin and of his positions and actions acts as a harbinger to Stalin\u2019s abusive years ahead. If the epitome of the Communist party was feeling weary about Stalin, that should have been warning enough for his turbulent years ahead in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite being of the same political party, Stalin and Lenin express very different opinions on the Soviet Union\u2019s issues. Stalin\u2019s document \u201cConcerning the Presentation of the National Question\u201d from May 8th 1921 describes the differences of the national questions as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[94171,104676,6771,22718,22721,51863],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","tag-autonomy","tag-communist","tag-imperialism","tag-lenin","tag-soviet-union","tag-stalin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}