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Answer:

Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin won in the end

Explanation:

Lenin was died on 21 January 1924. After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin who was General Secretary of RCP, became Lenin's successor.

The leading candidates for replacing Lenin

"Stalin and Trotsky" were the leading candidates for replacing Lenin as the head of the soviet government.

Trotsky, firmer than ever in his opposition to Stalin, was exiled to Alma-Ata in January 1928 and was exiled from the Soviet Union itself in February 1929, sent into exile in Turkey.

From his exile, Trotsky continued to oppose Stalin, right up until Trotsky was assassinated on Stalin's orders in August 1940.

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