It is fair to say that the struggle for power in the USSR
between 1924 and 1929 was partially to do with the economic
policy because the way in which different members of the
Communist Party treated the economic policy depended how much
support they got from fellow members of the Communist party.
However, there were other factors involved such as a lack of
democratic elections, the nature of leadership and fear of a
divided party. You could argue that the struggle for power was
due to the differing economic policies, this is because
different key players in the power struggle wanted different
things. For example, the Bukharinite model wanted gradualism –
to allow market forces to drive the economy forward and so
letting the peasants gain wealth individually. He believed this
would lead to a prosperous consumer market and heavy industry
that is centrally controlled, planned economy run by a
proletariat dictatorship. This would please the peasantry and
results in political and economic growth as well as increas