Political observers here believe that Stalin, minister of nationalities, will succeed Lenin, although all admit that none can really fill the place of the governing mind of the revolution.

Amis said that, Lenin’s most grievous and tragic mistake though was to “bequeath a fully functioning police state to Joseph Stalin.” From 1924, when Lenin died, until Stalin’s passing in ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...