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Stalin
4.1 - The death and funeral of Lenin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did Lenin die? | January 1924 |
| How did Lenin die? | Of a brain haemorrhage. |
| What had Lenin been during 1923? | Invalid |
| Why had Lenin been invalid during 1923? | He had suffered a series of strokes, the last of which left him speechless; he was only 53 years old. |
| What did Stalin and the other members of the Politburo have to arrange in January 1924? | Lenin's funeral |
| Who had to arrange Lenin's funeral? | Stalin and the other members of the Politburo. |
| What was the Politburo? | The voting group of the Bolsheviks. |
| To ordinary Russians, what was Lenin? | The hero. |
| Due to Lenin being seen as a hero by ordinary people, what happened after his death? | Thousands of people wept openly in the streets. Over a million filed past his body in the Kremlin during the three days before his funeral. Lenin's body was not buried, but embalmed and put on display in a mausoleum in the Red Square in Moscow. |
| Soon after Lenin's death, what was the situation? | Lenin's image was everywhere, on posters and statues. |
| What was the cause of Lenin's images being everywhere soon after his death? | This was partly government-led, but it also reflected the deeply-felt views of many who worshipped Lenin and visited his mausoleum. |
| What was done to Petrograd in Lenin's honour? | It was renamed Leningrad. |
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