Lenin set up the comintern ( communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the treaty of Versailles)
Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
Russia became the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
Lenin was shot in 1921- never fully recovered
Dies in Jan. 1924
Question
If Lenin was not shot, would the power struggle not have happened?
Summary
After Lenin was shot in 1921 there was a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, it went on for 3 years. Stalin ended up being successful and expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union.