HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Stalin
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Trotsky
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Marx
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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 Lenin’s death, in January 1924, Stalin promoted an extravagant, quasi-Byzantine cult of the deceased leader. Archpriest of Leninism, Stalin also promoted his own cult in the following year by having the city of Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -After being elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee in April 1917, Stalin helped Lenin to evade capture by authorities and ordered the besieged Bolsheviks to surrender to avoid a bloodbath. The Bolsheviks then seized Petrograd and Stalin was appointed People’s Commissar for Nationalities’ Affairs.