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Lenin's death was premature, few expected this would happen. After Lenin's death, his group of top supporters such as Stalin and Trotsky, among the other leading Bolsheviks maneuvered themselves to take control of the "revolution". Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union. His grip on the Party and the nation was strong. Party members he thought were rivals or threats to his power, such as Trotsky, were exiled or executed.
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What is true Lenin was succeeded by Stalin or Stalin was succeeded by Lenin?
I think Lenin was succeeded by Stalin.
Soviet leader who succeeded Stalin?
he succeeded Lenin in 1928 but Lenin died in 1924
Who succeeded Lenin as head of soviet communist party?
Joseph Stalin
Who succeeded Lenin as head of the communist party?
Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party because Stalin had already been made Secretary General of the party before Lenin died. Stalin did not take over as sole leader of the Soviet Union, but he was the leader of the Communist Party.
Who succeeded Lenin as a dictator and established a totalitarian state in the USSR?
Joseph Stalin
Who succeeded Lenin?
Lenin's SuccessorJoseph Stalin succeeded Lenin. However, immediately after Lenin died, a troika of Stalin, Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev succeeded him until Stalin took over complete control in 1929. Stalin was also very mean and killed a lot of people the people who disagreed with him.
Was Lenin in power before Stalin?
Lenin (1917-1924), but poor health prevented him from doing much after mid 1922. He was succeeded by three men ruling jointly - Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev. By 1927 Stalin had sidelined the other two and from 1928 he was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who tried to take power away from Lenin?
Joseph Stalin along with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev tried to take power from Lenin when Lenin was disabled by strokes. These three ran the government in Lenin's absence as he recovered and continued to do so secretly even when Lenin returned to work. The three would make governmental decisions in secret meetings after the general meetings that Lenin attended. Stalin restricted access to Lenin when Lenin was recovering. Stalin's biggest move for power was after Lenin made him Secretary General of the Communist Party. Once in that post, Stalin placed people loyal to him in many governmental offices. Stalin never did unseat Lenin, but he certainly tried and succeeded to take at least some of Lenin's powers away.
Who surrendered to Germany did Lenin or Stalin?
lenin
2 most famous communist leaders of russia?
Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin
How is Joseph Stalin related to Vladimir Lenin?
Stalin was Lenin's successor, even though Lenin didn't actually like Stalin much. Before that, Stalin had been in charge of the Communist Party's administration.
Did Stalin make russia an industrial power before or after the Russian revolution?
The Russian Revolution was carried out by Lenin in 1917. Stalin succeeded him in 1924. From this, we can infer that he made Russia an industrial power AFTER the revolution.
