How was Joseph Stalin able to become leader of the Communist Party in Russia after Lenin's death?

A)Lenin believed that Stalin would be a fair and honest leader, so he ensured Stalin's position before he died.

B)Lenin had groomed Stalin to be the next Communist leader, and other politicians were afraid to resist Lenin's wishes.

C)Stalin suppressed Lenin's wishes that Stalin NOT follow him as leader of the Soviet Union, fearing Stalin's approach to power.

D)Stalin had been like a son to the childless Lenin and therefore he inherited the position from Lenin after his death.

On a supply and demand graph, equilibrium is the point where the two curves meet. the supply curve begins. the supply curve ends. the demand curve ends.

This was the selling of large tracts of georgia land along a river in present-day mississippi from 1795 to 1803 at extremely low prices by georgia governors and the state legislature.

"as long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. the protection of these faculties is the first object of government. from the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results, and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties." - publius (james madison), federalist no. 10 based on the text, which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with? a: political liberty is best protected by the fragmentation of political power in a large republic. b: political liberty is best protected by a small republic with a unicameral legislature. c: political liberty is least protected in large republic with lots of fractions. d: political liberty is best protected by a particularly democracy.