HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Joseph Stalin
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Leon Trotsky
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Alexander Kerensky
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Ivan Drago
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union’s establishment in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin’s death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party’s ideology.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lenin felt that Stalin had more power than he could handle and might be dangerous if he was Lenin’s successor.