Which text structure is used in this passage? Read the passage from "Stalin: A Brutal Legacy
Uncovered," which is an informational text about
Stalin's atrocities and how he used ambition and fear to
rule over people of the Soviet Union.
cause-effect
O sequence
O problem-solution
O comparison-contrast
Stalin's genocidal record was the product of a ruthless,
steely personality hardened by searing hardships in his
youth: first, brutal beatings by his alcoholic, dirt-poor
father, and later, several rounds of imprisonment and
exile-from which he often escaped_following his
expulsion from a Russian Orthodox seminary for
fomenting a strike of railroad workers. For the 20-year-
old Stalin, an outstanding student with top marks in
Bible and Church studies, the strike was the first step
on a new road-a career of rebellion, crime, and radical
politics that eventually made him the unquestioned
boss of the Communist Party and of 140 million people
in the Soviet Union