WORLD HISTORY

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Commander of the Red Army who lost succession of Lenin to Stalin in 1924 was ____
A
Josef Stalin
B
Leon Trotsky
C
Alexander Kerensky
D
Tsar Nicholas II
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -From March 1918 to January 1925, Trotsky headed the Red Army as People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and played a vital role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joseph Stalin (1924-1953) Joseph Stalin participated in the 1917 October Revolution and started working for the Soviet government during Lenin’s tenure. His concentration of power began in 1922 when he became secretary general of the Communist Party’s Central Committee-a position he held until his death in 1953.

Detailed explanation-3: -Upon Lenin’s death in early 1924, his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. Fellow revolutionary Joseph Stalin succeeded him as leader of the Soviet Union.

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