Northern Eurasia 1924: Death of Lenin
21 January 1924
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1941–1943 The Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
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Death of Lenin
Following a number of strokes and possibly still weakened from a 1918 assassination attempt, Lenin died a year after the founding of the Soviet Union. He was succeeded by a troika made up of Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin, a man he distrusted and had privately denounced.
