Stalin (left) with Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in the 1920s.
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Study Stalin’s early career. Were there signs already of his ambition and how ruthlessly it would be pursued? Make a list of Stalin’s machinations in ousting rival party leaders — Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin — as they sought to deal with the USSR’s backward industrial economy and grain procurement problems.
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