Is it true that Lenin was aware of Stalin's hunger for power?

(Sorry for my poor English!) Maybe you know in 1922 Lenin got stroke and it was forbidden for him to work. That time the general secretary of the Bolshevik Party was Stalin. read more

Then Lenin wrote a warning letter to the Central Commite of the Bolshevik Party that in his mind Stalin is not suitable for the post of the supreme leader of the Party after his death becouse of his rudness and bad communication to the people. read more

Stalin used this post to control who was in - or out of the Party. Stalin then ensured that 'his' people were loyal to him because they wanted to keep their jobs - he did this by collecting information about everyone in the Party. Once Lenin was dead Stalin was just as shrewd. read more

Nazism, it is generally agreed, cannot be rehabilitated in any way, because it was inextricable from Hitler's crimes, but there are some on the left who believe communism can be rehabilitated despite the crimes of Stalin, and despite new evidence that the tactics of terror were innovations traceable to his predecessor Lenin. read more