Stalin How He Kept Power in Russia

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 …

…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