“Though many anticipated disaster, and the atmosphere was frantic after hundreds were trampled to death due to bottlenecks while Stalin’s body was on display, this was a failure of crowd control rather than that of leadership. The team that took over the leadership of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin proved to be surprisingly cooperative and efficient, according to Sheila Fitzpatrick, professor at University of Sydney, who talked about Stalin’s team in a lecture hosted by CEU’s Department of History on October 14.
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