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Stalin’s stroke plunged the Soviet regime into a crisis which shook it to its very foundations. As the original announcement (withheld for two days) pointed out
Comrade Stalin’s grave illness ... [involved] his more or less prolonged non-participation in leading activity.1
What went unsaid was that the question of ruling Russia without Stalin had been catapulted from the realm of an eventual necessity to an immediate reality. With it came a hydra of deadly problems which could easily destroy those who sought to fill his shoes.
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Embree, G.D. (1959). The Post-Stalin Interregnum. In: The Soviet Union between the 19th and the 20th Party Congresses, 1952–1956. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9550-8_2
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