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History GCSE Coursework
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History GCSE Coursework The leadership Contest: Trotsky vs. Stalin Explain Trotsky's Contribution To The Success Of The Bolsheviks up to 1923? Trotsky contributed greatly to the success of the Bolsheviks, Even though he didn't join the Bolsheviks until 1917, were before he had been the former member of a bigger party, The Mensheviks. He first met Lenin by working with a group of Marxist's in England. Lenin wanted Trotsky to join the Bolsheviks, but the Bolsheviks was only a small party, and Lenin and Trotsky argued about their different ideas. However in 1917 he arrived back in Russia and disapproved of the support that the Mensheviks were now giving to the provisional government and decided to join the Bolsheviks instead, however he was arrested. Though Trotsky soon built up his power in the Bolshevik party, when he was elected the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. He immediately helped to enlist 25,000 armed recruits to...
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