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Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the USSR. He succeeded Lenin after a power struggle with Trotsky and consolidated his authority with the Great Purge, a period of widespread arrests and executions that peaked in... See more

Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the USSR. He succeeded Lenin after a power struggle with Trotsky and consolidated his authority with the Great Purge, a period of widespread arrests and executions that peaked in 1937. Stalin molded the features that characterized the new Soviet regime; his policies, based on Marxist–Leninist ideology, are often thought to represent a political and economic system called Stalinism. More... See less