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Stalin had always supported the Bolsheviks, while Trotsky only switched from the Menshevik party to the Bolshevik party after it was apparent that the Bolsheviks would win. Trotsky was a thinker with brilliant speeches, Stalin used force for votes. Trotsky led the army, while Stalin was the secretary. Stalin had great political appeal, but Trotsky had great militaristic and organisational appeal. Furthermore, Stalin was mentally and physically strong, but after Lenin's death, Trotsky began breaking down. The power struggle between the two sparked a conflict in which Trotsky fled the USSR but was later disposed.

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Yes. Trotsky was a Menshevik and Lenin was a Bolshevik. Trotsky also wanted a freer communism while Lenin wanted more power to a small group of leadership.

Trotsky had been a Menshevik, but he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks before the 1917 revolution. Trotsky did not vie for power against Lenin. He was Lenin's second hand man. After Lenin died in 1924, Trotsky became Joseph Stalin's rival for power.

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