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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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MaxineYes. 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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Who was Stalin's rival for control of russia in the late 1920s?
Leon Trotsky.
Which year was Leon Trotsky murdered?
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Who was Joseph Stalin's primary opponent for control of the Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin's rival for control of the Soviet Union was Leon Trotsky. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 and over the next 5 years Stalin would kill or otherwise remove all of his political opponents and rivals and exile Trotsky. He eventually had Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.
In which country was Leon Trotsky stabbed?
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Who was Joseph Stalin enemy?
Politically, Leon Trotsky was Stalin's greatest enemy, because after Vladimir Lenin's death, Trotsky was supposed to succeed Lenin. Stalin managed to eliminate him as a rival for power, exile him and eventually have him murdered. Militarily, Adolf Hitler was his greatest enemy, because Hitler had the German Army attack Russia in World War 2. The German Army nearly defeated the Soviet Union. Stalin might have been thrown out of power had Germany won.
