Lenin's Death and the Power struggle
- Lenin was shot in 1921
- dies in Jan 1924
- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- Struggle goes on for 3 years
- Stalin is successful by Gen. Secretary
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstentia for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940
- Stalin to follow " Socialism in One Country"
Summary
After Lenin was shot, a big struggle for power ensued led on the two ends by Stalin and Trotsky the struggle lasts 3 years, with Stalin finally victorious. Trotsky was banished and later hunted down and killed in Mexico.
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