Lenin's Death -- Leon Trotsky vs. Josef 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 the Germans (Against treaty of Versailles) - Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany - 1922 Bolshevik party became communist party - Russia became the Soviet Union - Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovered - Dies in January 1924 “No artist has painted
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Lenin dies 1924. Political battle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin ensues.
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