"Socialism in the One Country"
Lenin 's Death and the Power Struggle
- Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovered
- Dies in Jan. 1924
- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- “Guns or Butter” debate = Heavy Industry or Consumer goods
- Struggle continues for 3 years
- Stalin is successful (General Secretery)
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstentia for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 (Ice pick)
- Stalin to follow “Socialism in One Country” slogan
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The power struggle in Russia was between Joseph Stalin and Lenin, after Lenin got shot and couldn't recover Stalin became General Secretary.