From Lenin to Stalin, there is not so much continuity as a break, as is attested to by the testament by the father of the revolution, who stated: “We aren't civilized enough to reach socialism directly.”
On January 21, 1924, at 6:50 p.m., having just been informed of the Party's latest decisions, Lenin was the victim of a final crisis and died at age 54, after having fought illness and worry as to the revolution's future for 18 months. Stricken by an attack that paralyzed his right side on May (...)
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Christ! Just can't break away from the liberal/bourgeois narrative. It makes no difference what the actual history is, what the actual circumstances were, just try to somehow look better to bourgeois eyes...*sigh*...