After the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party, Trotsky was turned off by the violence he saw in Lenin's Bolshevik Party. They were too much like the Jacobin policies of the French Revolution. Trotksky instead preferred the socialism of the Mensheviks. In fact, Trotsky authored pamphlets attacking Lenin and his Bolsheviks.
Lenin was more important by far. Lenin was the founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party, which eventually took over the country and set up the new socialist government. Trotsky was not even a member of the Bolshevik Party until shortly before the revolution. Trotsky became more of a right hand man to Lenin during the revolution and afterwords but he was never above Lenin in leadership.
Lenin may have chosen to exile Leon Trotsky due to political differences and power struggles within the Bolshevik party. Trotsky's popularity and influence posed a threat to Lenin's leadership, leading to his expulsion in order to maintain control and unity within the party.
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.
Vladimir I. Lenin founded the Bolshevik Party in 1903.
Leon Trotsky was not apart of the October Revolution. However he lead the Red Army in the November Revolution as a part of the Bolshevik Party.
Vladimir I. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party ever since its beginning at the Party Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Brussels in 1903. He remained its leader till his death in 1924.The leader of the Bolsheviks, was Vladimir Lenin, and co leader was Leon Trotsky. This changed dramatically upon the sudden death of Lenin in 1924.Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party and the one who organized the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. He is the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Stalin and Trotsky were among the top leaders of the Bolshevik Party after the Revolution and Civil War. They disliked one another intensely and had conflicting opinions on how to run the country after the revolution. Trotsky favored spreading communism to all countries as Marx and Lenin had envisioned. Stalin felt that they should establish communism firmly in one country first then move from there. Stalin also disliked Trotsky because he was Jewish and had only recently joined the Bolshevik Party. After Lenin died in 1924, the two vied for control of the Communist Party and the country with Stalin winning and expelling Trotsky first from the Communist Party then from the country. In 1940, Trotsky was living in Mexico in exile and Stalin had an undercover agent assassinate him.
Lenin controlled the Bolshevik Party, which changed its name to the Communist Party in 1918.
Vladimir Illytch Ulianov (Lenin) along with Lev Bronstein (Trotsky) were the prime movers in the Russian revolution in 1917. They went on to establish the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the most powerful Communist nation in history. After Lenins death in 1924 Stalin became its leader. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940. The political group Lenin was associated with was the Bolshevik Party, a small but radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Workers Party. In March 1918, the Bolshevik Party changed its name to the Communist Party.
Writing from exile, Leon Trotsky recalled the problems that the Soviet's Left Opposition saw in the administration of the New Economic Policy, the NEP. Trotsky recalls that at the Eleventh Party Congress in 1923, that Lenin was forced to explain the need for bourgeois politicians and managers to make the NEP "work". This, Trotsky warned was a demonstration of how the Bolshevik Party was losing its Bolshevism.
Yes, a Bolshevik is a person who believes in Bolshevism or who was a member of the Bolshevik Party founded by Vladimir Lenin.
The Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) led the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The previous revolution in that year, the February Revolution, was not ed by any particular political party.