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LEON TROTSKY'S STRUGGLE FOR POWER (PPT VERSION)
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ANALYSE WHYTROTSKY COULD
NOT WIN THE
STRUGGLE FOR POWER
WITH STALIN
, 01
After Lenin died in January 1924, the question arose immediately about who would be the next
leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Trotsky was one of the most recognizable figures
associated with the October Revolution—admired, hated, and emulated within and outside the
USSR. Although history rightly remembers Joseph Stalin as Trotsky’s chief rival and later mortal
enemy, in the early 1920s Stalin passed unnoticed by many observers. He had been a “barely
perceptible shadow,” as Trotsky put it. One of the classic histories of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten
Days That Shook the World, written by the American radical, John Reed, hardly mentions Stalin.
Gregori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, not Stalin, emerged as Trotsky’s principal opponents in the
immediate aftermath of Lenin’s death.
These two men, who had been with Lenin for years, felt threatened by Trotsky’s popularity and his
military record. A mistake, fateful for all three, though, had already been made. In 1922, Lenin,
appreciating his organizational talents, chose Stalin for the position of General Secretary of the
Communist Party. This gave him authority over party membership and appointments. Stalin
quickly accrued enormous power and influence in the party over the next few years. Once Lenin,
who, in his last months, sorely regretted his choice of Stalin, was no longer in the picture, Stalin
sided with Zinoviev and Kamenev in their opposition to Trotsky.
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