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At the time, Lenin was the revered architect and elder statesman of the Bolshevik revolution, while Stalin was an ambitious rising party leader. Theirs was a clash not only of political vision and statecraft but of personal insults and grudges. And while they hashed out the future of the nation, their battle would end not in resolution, but in Lenin’s premature death.
The conflict between the two leaders came to a head in the last days of December 1922, when 2,000 delegates from all over the former Russian empire gathered in the main hall of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to create a new state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. That state would include Russia, which was endowed with its own territory and institutions, distinct from those of the Union, and the already Soviet-sized republics of Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia, which were formally independent of Russia.
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