Stalin's Russia STRUGGLE FOR POWER AFTER LENIN DIED IN 1924 [Stalin Takes Power] 1.Secretary - as General Secretary of Com. Party installed supporters in important positions. 2.Trotsky unpopular - brilliant but big-headed/ Missed Lenin's funeral (Stalin told him wrong date)/ Ideas of world revolution worried some Russians - too soon. 3.Played off 2 sides of Politburo against each other: First Stalin allied with Zinoviev and Kamenev [Leftists] = got Trotsky dismissed 1925. Next he called for 'Socialism in one …showed first 75 words of 2579 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2579 total…and prisoners worked long hours in any conditions (-40°F, waist deep in snow). Clothing was poor and disease widespread (e.g. Influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria, frostbite). They were at the mercy of brutal and depraved guards; self-mutilation and suicide were common. This information taken from two sources: On Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Sclzhenitsyn La Justice Soviétique - Mora and Zwierniak - 1945