WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who challenged Joseph Stalin for power in the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death?
A
Alexander Kerensky
B
V. I. Lenin
C
Leon Trotsky
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

Detailed explanation-2: -A power struggle existed for a brief period after Lenin’s death in 1924. Through banning all political parties, Stalin then came to power. He developed Marxism-Leninism then. Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party Marxist-Leninist state under his rule, ruled by the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.

Detailed explanation-3: -The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. Lenin was given a state funeral and then buried in a specially erected mausoleum on 27 January. A commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) was in charge of organising the funeral.

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