Which text structure is used in this passage? cause-effect
O sequence
O problem-solution
O comparison-contrast
Read the passage from "Stalin: A Brutal Legacy
Uncovered, which is an informational text about
Stalin's atrocities and how he used ambition and fear to
rule over people of the Soviet Union.
Stalin's genocidal record was the product of a ruthless,
steely personality hardened by searing hardships in his
youth: first, brutal beatings by his alcoholic, dirt-poor
father, and later several rounds of imprisonment and
exile—from which he often escaped_following his
expulsion from a Russian Orthodox seminary for
fomenting a strike of railroad workers. For the 20-year-
old Stalin, an outstanding student with top marks in
Bible and Church studies the strike was the first step
on a new road—a career of rebellion, crime, and radical
politics that eventually made him the unquestioned
boss of the Communist Party and of 140 million people
in the Soviet Union