Please actually inform yourself about these things. > In any case, it doesn't matter, since Stalin created the Troika, ensured that Lenin was unable to contac

Please actually inform yourself about these things. > In any case, it doesn't matter, since Stalin created the Troika, ensured that Lenin was unable to contact outsiders without his authority This is at best an exaturation. Many non-Stalin allies had contact with Lenin during most of that time. > That's a misrepresentation at best, since the documents were written up over several months. When these things were actually written is not at all clear. The information is actually inconsistant and we don't have the original documents. The testament was known and debated extensivly inside the party. > Communism is about giving the power to the proletariat. Stalin can hardly be said to have done that. Literally the first thing Lenin did is take as much power for himself as possible. So much is made out of the differences between all of these guys, but in reality they are more simular then different. The theory they were opperating under was that the state should take control guided by the proletarian party to transform into communism. That was Lenin and many other people interpretation of Marxism and Stalin was very much a studend of Lenin in that respect. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin is a great new biography of Stalin it goes into great detail on the testaments and Stalin idiology.