HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Threatening political opponents.
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Industrializing the nation.
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Controlling (censoring) the media.
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Outlawing other political parties.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lenin died on 21 January 1924. Stalin was given the honour of organizing his funeral. Upon Lenin’s death, Stalin was officially hailed as his successor as the leader of the ruling Communist Party and of the Soviet Union itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin’s death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stalin gained power in the USSR by using his position as party general secretary to gain control of the Communist Party and kept it by ousting his opponents, including the original Bolshevik elites that first installed communism in Russia.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Soviet Union had its origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Radical leftist revolutionaries overthrew Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, ending centuries of Romanov rule. The Bolsheviks established a socialist state in the territory that was once the Russian Empire. A long and bloody civil war followed.