1. stalin
Lenin died leaving Stalin in a position of power. ... Stalin was lucky in this way. ... Moreover, this showed Stalin to be the natural successor to Lenin, especially as Stalin was present at Lenin's funeral, and had arranged it so that Trotsky was not. ... Stalin expertly used his power to undermine them. ... Stalin had moulded it into a dictatorship supported by a mass bureaucracy, of which Stalin had complete control ...
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