Parent Category: Historic Impact
Category: History—Russia (1920s and 30s)
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With the death of Lenin in 1924, a struggle for leadership of the Communist Party commenced leading to the elevation of Josef Stalin and the beginning of a reign of terror as he purged the Party of old Bolsheviks and sought to modernize Russia through agricultural collectivization and despotic violence against intellectuals and the old middle classes. 

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