WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which statement best describes the political situation that existed in the Soviet Union immediately after the death of Lenin in 1924?
A
The nation adopted a constitutional monarchy
B
Trotsky and his followers assumed full control of the Communist Party
C
Popular elections were held to choose a new general secretary
D
A power struggle developed among Communist Party leaders
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country’s and its federal government’s existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full independence on 26 December 1991.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Bolshevist Marxism–Leninism, an ideology of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Russian Civil War ended in 1923 with Lenin’s Red Army claiming victory and establishing the Soviet Union. After many years of violence and political unrest, the Russian Revolution paved the way for the rise of communism as an influential political belief system around the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gorbachev’s decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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