Why Stalin Succeeded Leninby Rob Irvine, Jan 27, 2008The reasons that Stalin succeeded Lenin as general secretary of the Russian Communist party.It's a well documented fact that Lenin never chose a successor, Trotsky was too radical and Stalin was seen only as a necessity during the violent revolution that lead to the communist accent to power in Russia. Stalin's rise to power will not be a peaceful one and will eventually end up costing the lives of most of his political opposition, any opposition that isn't killed in the time immediately before and after Stalin's power grab then they will most likely be murdered later in the 20th century. Thus is the life of a
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