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Joseph Stalin was the "totalitarian" leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, however he did not have dictatorial powers immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. It took Stalin until the mid 1930's before he had eliminated almost all of his equals in the Communist Party and installed people loyal to him personally in positions of power. Once he had done that he became the totalitarian leader that history remembers him as.

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Leon Trotsky was never the leader of the Soviet Union. He was exiled in 1929 by Josef Stalin. Stalin's power increased after that and by 1940 he became the Premier of the USSR and crushed any opposition he had or thought he had from other Party members.

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