... Hand Man" "Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man." Leon Trotsky had a lot of wise things to say and had many great qualities, such as: he had great public speaking skills, he had strong work ethics, ... . He stood up for what he believed in, and this made him a highly respected man, or at least while Lenin was the leader of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky's first name was Lev and he was born on October 26, 1879, as a well-to-do Jewish farmer. His family highly valued education and so when he was ... . He was arrested and deported several times to Siberia, both ...

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... in policy. Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. After a Bolshevik-sponsored insurrection in July, Lenin went into hiding and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure ... Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed; the Russians gave up Ukraine, most of Belorussia, the Baltic States, Poland, Transcaucasia, and Bessarabia. Stalin had initially argued ...

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... , This position gave Stalin the power to appoint people were loyal to him key jobs in the Party. In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. After 10 years of his "ruthless pursuit for power"(WW2 Biographies) he was the only one left alive out of the 5 original leaders ... ...

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... alliances with Kamenev and Zinivyev to insure that he would stay in power. This smart move also helped him defeat his biggest threat and the foremost candidate for Lenin's position Leon Trotsky. Once the threat of Trostky was eliminated, Stalin reversed course, making a new alliance with Nikolay Bukharin, and Aleksey Rykov. This new alliance was against his old friends Kamenev and Zinivyev ... ...

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