A.After the Bolshevik revolution of November 1917, Lenin led the newly communist USSR until his death. “Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashivili”, commonly known as Stalin, was the only man he warned his country not to put in power. Instead, the man who seemed most qualified for the job was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, or Leon Trotsky, the leader of the Soviet army, an important member of the Communist Party, and a close friend of Lenin (Rempel). Despite Trotsky's superior position, Stalin became the new communist leader. To answer the question: "What were the factors that led Stalin, rather than Trotsky, to come to power in the post-Lenin USSR?" ", several in-depth biographies, including: The Life and Death of Lenin by Robert Payne, Trotsky the Eternal Revolutionary by Dmitri Volkogonov, as well as several books on the USSR: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union and The USSR under Stalin by Stewart Ross; any information relating to Stalin's overcoming will be sought.B.With The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, a couple of German philosophers, laid the foundations on which the principles of the Russian November Revolution were based 1917. . Promoted by Lenin, chairman of the Communist Party in Russia, as well as Trotsky, another prominent leader at the head of the Red Army, the values ​​of a classless society, equality for all, equal distribution of resources and of a place for everyone became the basis of a revolution that transformed Russia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR (Stoff 16). Under Lenin, who became the new leader, the country was able recover from the economic crisis...... paper ...... road to Stalingrad. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. Mawdsley, Evan. The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union 1929-1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Payne, Robert. The life and death of Lenin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Print. Rappaport, Helen. Joseph Stalin A biographical comparison. Santa Barbara: Rappaport, Helen, 1999. Print. Rempel, Gerhard. “Stalin versus Trotsky.” GCSE Modern World History. Np, and Web. May 1, 2014.Ross, Stew art. The USSR under Stalin. New York: Bookwright, 1991. Print.Stoff, Laurie. The rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2006. Print. Ulam, Adam B. Stalin; the man and his times. New York: Viking, 1973. Print. Volkogonov, Dmitry Antonovich and Harold Shukman. Trotsky: the eternal revolutionary. New York: Free, 1996. Print.