Who were the leading candidates for replacing lenin as the head of the soviet government?

Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin won in the end

Explanation:

a) hostility to or prejudice against jews.

b) the holocaust, also referred to as the shoah, was a genocide during world war ii in which nazi germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million european jews             , around two-thirds of the jewish population of europe, between 1941 and 1945.