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Explain Trotsky's contribution to the success of the Bolsheviks up to 1922?
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Russia A. Explain Trotsky's contribution to the success of the Bolsheviks up to 1922? Trotsky was born in 1879 in a remote part of the Southern Ukraine. He was from a wealthy, Jewish family. Trotsky was at first a Menshevik and did not join the Bolshevks until 1917. this meant that those Bolsheviks who had been in the partry for many years were suspicious of him. He returned to Petrograd from exile in May 1917 and played a major part in organizing the Bolshevik takeover in October. Preferred to work as an individal rather than part of a team. Unwilling to work towords gaining support from other Bolsheviks. In many towns and cities the workers began to form new organisations called soviets the role of the soviets was to coordinate strikes and petition for the rights of the workers. the most powerful was the St Petersburg Soviet, it became a powerful body which...
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