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Leon Trotsky posed a threat to Joseph Stalin's hold on the power in Russia after Lenin's death. Many Bolshevik leaders supported Trotsky's philosophy of "permanent revolution" while others supported Stalin's policy of "socialism in one country." Stalin allied himself with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev against Trotsky and eventually had enough people loyal to him to expel Trotsky from the Communist Party. Trotsky continued to criticize Stalin and tried to line up support against Stalin. Stalin knew the only way to completely eliminate Trotsky as a rival would be to get him out of the country entirely, so Trotsky was exiled to Turkey.
Trotsky was exiled because of his opposition to Stalin.

The excuse Stalin gave for the exile of Trotsky was that he did not go to Lenins funeral-but Stalin idid not invite him to the funeral.

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Vladimir Lenin was exiled because he had associated himself with radical revolutionaries. The Tsar had assassination attempts made by these people [in fact, Lenin's brother was executed after trying to kill the Tsar]. Lenin was interested in Marxist ideas, which was "illegal" by Russian terms. Therefore, he was exiled to Siberia, where he also wed his wife.

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Trotsky was supposed to take over the Soviet Union. He became Stalin's biggest opponet and rival, and so Stalin formed alliances with other Soviet politicians to have Trotsky kicked out of the Soviet party to secure his sole Dictatorship in the USSR.

Few could disagree with the primary answer to the question regarding the power struggle within the USSR after Lenin's death in 1924. Fortunately for Stalin he had been elected earlier on as the Party Secretary General. At the time. Lenin was still alive and the post was not a significant one.

Later, Stalin would use this position to stack the Party with his friends.

Trotsky, in his own writings said his last chance to prevent the Stalinization of the Party was when he was still in charge of the Red Army. Nevertheless, Stalin put off the criticisms of himself from Trotsky's opinions that Stalin was not a true Marxist Leninist. In fact this internal struggle within the Party after Lenin, Stalin had to re-read Marx.

As late as 1926, Stalin was able to "prove" the internal struggle itself was part of the expected turn of events. He was able to out maneuver the intellectual Marxist, Trotsky, by quoting Marx & Engels. According to the founders of Communism, the Party, like any other party grew & developed by means of internal struggle. Clearly the Party, even by this date, was an "out of control" organization. Outside left leaning intellectuals such as Sir John Maynard, stated that Stalin had perpetrated the mystical elements of Russian Marxism, by having inner Party circles discuss the question of whether or not the Party was infallible. At other times, when it was so clear that he and Trotsky, were split on how things should be run, Stalin stated that because of the class purity of the Party, a split, even a simple and natural difference of opinion, was not justified.

Trotsky would raise opinions on:

*revolutionary strategy abroad;

*the over bureaucracy of the Party; and

* democracy within the Party.

As Party Secretary, Stalin created the bureaucracy, and could not tolerate having any type of "democracy" within the Party.

This basically meant that Trotsky had to "go". With the Central Committee stacked with Stalin's allies, Trotsky was banished to the outer reaches of Russia. Later, after several other places, including New York City, to his end in Mexico City.

Leon Trotsky complained that although his exile was for attempting to overturn the Soviet Union, he was never brought to trial on any charges, real or imagined ones by Stalin.

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Josef Stalin saw Leon Trotsky as a political rival in the USSR. As far as Stalin was concerned, Trotsky was too wedded to the ideas of Marx. Trotsky saw Stalin as a ruthless dictator and made his opinion all to well known. To protect his position in the Communist party, Stalin had Trotsky exiled.

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Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union on January 31, 1928.

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Where did Vladimir Lenin flee?

Vladmir lenin went to Finland after being exiled in Russia


Why did Vladimir Lenin get exiled from Germany?

Lenin was never exiled from Germany. He had been living in exile in Switzerland but it was from Russia not Germany. After the February Russian Revolution, Germany helped Lenin return to Russia from Switzerland through Germany and Finland. Lenin wasn't being exiled from Switzerland or Germany. He was being returned to Russia to foment revolution so as to get Russia out of World War 1.


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Lenin was arrested in 1897 for forming an illegal trade union. He was sentenced to a year in prison and exiled to Siberia until 1900.


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In 1895, Lenin and several other Marxist followers formed the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. The Union was seen as akin to a trade union which was illegal under the Tsarist regime. Lenin and some others were quickly arrested. He spent a year in prison then was exiled to Siberia for three years from 1897 to 1900.


Why did Vladimir Lenin marry?

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Where was Lenin sent after being arrested in 1895?

Lenin was exiled to one of the more agreeable places in Siberia, a small town on the River Lena. At the time he was still Vladimir I. Ulyanov, but his time spent at the River Lena influenced him to adopt the name "Lenin."


What is the meaning of name Lenin?

The name has no specific meaning. It is thought that it comes from the River Lena, which flows through Siberia. Lenin had been exiled there from 1897 to 1900. He began using the name in 1901.


Which Russian was exiled from Russia to Lenin and had a brief affair in Mexico with Frida Kahlo?

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Where in Siberia was Lenin exiled?

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Did Lenin ever get arrested?

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Where did Stalin meet Lenin?

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