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When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his most obvious successor. Instead it was Joseph Stalin, a man once described by Trotsky as a “dull grey blur” and a “nonentity” who had, by 1929, vanquished his political rivals and seized power for himself.
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10. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33
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7. Stalin’s Right-Hand Man was a Sadist and a Serial Killer
6. Suppression of Religion
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3. The Most Powerful Men in the Soviet Union were Routinely Humiliated
2. Siberian Gulags
1. The Cult of Stalin
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