- After Lenins Death, there was a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin - "guns or butter" debate - Guns was heavy industry, and butter was social programs - Stalin was guns, Trotsky was butter - Being in charge of Propaganda, Stalin had a mach larger advantage - Stalin won - Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union - Later get murdered with an ice pick
Summary: Trotsky and Stalin, who had very different political views, both wanted to be leaders of the USSR, but Stalin got it