The Relationship and Rivalries between Lenin and Trotsky

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[...] He will continue his action alongside Lenin until their victory in the October Revolution. He is elected as People's Commissar and founds the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War that will follow, Trotsky will remain alongside Lenin and be appointed Commissar for War. This civil war will be violent, Lenin and he himself will establish an extremely repressive system and justify the use of Terror. Political opponents and agitators will be locked up in concentration camps. In 1922, they founded the USSR. [...]

[...] His health deteriorates again, and the rivalry between him and Stalin only grows. Lenin, unable to move, it is between Trotsky and Stalin that the war breaks out in the hope of taking over the torch at Lenin's death, which occurs on January In 1924, Stalin and Trotsky each gather their forces, and both will engage in a battle within the party. Stalin will gradually take the lead and reduce Trotsky's role until his takeover and the establishment of his totalitarian regime in 1928. [...]

[...] It followed a journey through Europe, punctuated by his writings and political aspirations. It was during this exile that he definitively adopted the pseudonym of Lenin. During the first Russian Revolution, Lenin did not play an important role, being at the head of a Russian party directed from Europe. He eventually returned to Russia, but the revolution was a failure and he returned to exile. Lenin took advantage of the end of World War I and the February Revolution of 1917 to attempt a new revolution. [...]

[...] He was then tempted by Menshevism, and after meeting Parvus, he became a social democrat. In complete illegality, Trotsky returned to Russia in 1905 and took an active part in the revolution that followed. He was even appointed Vice-President and then President of the St. Petersburg Soviet. During the repression in 1907, he was arrested and sentenced to perpetual exile, while being stripped of his civil rights. During his transfer, he escaped and joined Europe for a new exile. He remained faithful to the social democrats and his relations with Lenin were always tense. [...]

[...] Who is Lenin? During his childhood, Lenin was part of the wealthy class, both socially and intellectually. His future political and revolutionary career would have been strongly influenced by the death of his father at the age of 16 and the execution a few years later of his brother Alexander, who advocated for the assassination of the Tsarina's family. Excluded from his university due to his family ties with Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin returned to his family and nourished himself with the revolutionary writings of Marx and Chernyshevsky. [...]