Which of the following statements best explains why Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union and not Trotsky? Select all that apply. a) Many people thought Trotsky was conceited and untrustworthy because he was late to join the Bolshevik Party.
b) Many people thought Trotsky was too unhealthy to lead the Soviet Union.
c) Stalin built himself a strong network of support that would allow him to take power after Lenin.
d) As General Secretary, Stalin appointed his allies to government positions

Which  was not a problem faced by farmers in the late 19th century

Meaning “restructuring,” reduced government control and the soviet union move away from a totalitarian government. a) glasnost b) detente c) perestroike d) democracy

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?