The structure of the passage follows Stalin's career in reverse chronological order, starting with his death, and passing through his youth, as shown in option D.
The textual structure is very important for the coherence and efficiency of a text. In the case of text indicated in the question above, we can see an inverse chronological structure.
This type of structure presents events according to the date they happened, but the timeline is inverted, showing first the most recent events and then the oldest.
We can see this type of structure in the indicted text, because it starts by showing the events that happened after Stalin's death, moving on to his youth and the events that provoked his ascension to the communist party.
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