... 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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