 Complete the following phrase:  Lenin died in January 1924. Stalin took charge of the funeral and was one of its pallbearers; against the wishes of Lenins widow, the Politburo embalmed his corpse and placed it within a mausoleum in Moscows Red Square. It was incorporated into a growing personality cult devoted to Lenin, with Petrograd being renamed Leningrad that year. To bolster his image as a devoted Leninist, Stalin gave nine lectures at Sverdlov University on the Foundations of Leninism, later published in book form. During the 