Trotsky and Stalin

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Trotsky and Stalin Before Lenin died on 21st January 1924, he was suffering from severe strokes due to this he was not able to play an active role in political life. When Lenin died he didn’t leave an accepted successor. It was obvious that Trotsky (Lenin’s closest comrade) would take over and emerge as successor. But this didn’t happen instead Joseph Stalin emerged as successor. It was a struggle for power between Trotsky and Stalin that went on for several years before Stalin was finally able T triumph in the late 1920.Trotsky wasn’t ready to give up everything he had worked for. He was
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successful in creating the red army and winning the civil war. He also had an advantage, before joining the Bolsheviks Trotsky was commissar for foreign affair. However he would never had a chance of becoming the successor as all the communist leaders were determined to prevent in becoming one. even Lenin states in one of his account that ; other members of the party were deeply suspicious of Trotsky’s ambition and feared that he wanted to become supreme. Many though that Trotsky was capable of ruling the country, but because of his arrogance and much intelligence he made most of ...

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