Lenin Death, Trotsky VS Stalin
- Lenin set up the comintern (communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
- Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo- Russians made war material for Germans (against the treaty for Versailles)
- Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1922 Bolsheviks Party became the Communist Party
- Russia became the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
- Lenin shot in 1924- never fully recovered
- Dies in Jan. 1924
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After Lenin was shot in 1921, Trotsky and Stalin both fought for the higher power. This struggle went on for 3 years until Stalin took the power and expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union.
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If Lenin was not shot, would there have been a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky?
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Quotes
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin