Lenin's testament and funeral

Lenin's testament
After his second stroke in 1922, Lenin wrote a testament to be read after his death describing how he felt about some leading figures in the Communist Party

• 'Comrade Stalin, having become General Secretary, has immeasurable power concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure he knows how to use that power with sufficent caution'
• Comrade Trotsky... is distinguished not only by his outstanding ability. He is personally perhaps the most capable man in the Central Committee'
• Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole…