Who were these people
Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky
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Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
Lenin and Trotsky both ascribed to the teachings of German Communists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. However, they often differed in their beliefs regarding how Marxist principles should be implemented. Lenin became the leader of the "Bolshevik" -- Russian for "majority" -- faction of the Communist Party while Trotsky was one of the leaders of the "Menshevik" or "minority" faction. Lenin and the Bolsheviks wanted the Communist Party to be led by a small, highly organized group who were loyal to the Party. Trotsky and the Mensheviks wanted the Communist Party to be larger, more inclusive and less centrally-organized.
Permanent Revolution or State Socialism
One of Trotsky's core beliefs was the concept of permanent revolution. Trotsky believed that the Communist Revolution should continue nonstop until the entire world was united in a worker's paradise. Lenin shared Trotsky's ideal of worldwide Communism, but believed it was more pragmatic to consolidate the victories in the Russian Revolution rather than actively spreading military revolution to other countries. Lenin believed that Russia's successful communist revolution would lead the working class and peasants in other countries to rise up in neighboring countries on their own.
Unions Among the Soviets
Lenin and Trotsky also differed in their approach to labor unions. Trotsky believed that the government of a true workers' movement had nothing to fear from labor unions. Lenin, in keeping with the Bolshevik ideal of vesting power in the hands of a small group of loyal Communists, believed that labor unions were unnecessary and potentially disruptive. In Lenin's view, control of industry and agricultural labor should be centralized and controlled by a dictatorial government.
Trotsky Vs. Stalin
Despite their differences, Lenin and Trotsky managed to have a working relationship throughout Lenin's lifetime. Many assumed that Trotsky would become the leader of the Communist Party after Lenin's death in 1924, but this wasn't to be. Trotsky had made many enemies within the Communist Party. His most notable enemy was another close associate of Lenin -- Josef Stalin. Stalin outmaneuvered Trotsky and became Lenin's successor. Soon after, Stalin exiled Trotsky and, in 1940, had him assassinated.
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STALIN:
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Djugashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until 1953 as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as Stalinism.
LENIN:
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism.
TROTSKY:
Leon Trotsky[a] ( born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist and politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism.
Trotsky's ideas developed the basis of Trotskyism, a prime school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism. He was written out of the history books under Stalin and was one of the few Soviet political personalities who was not rehabilitated by the Soviet administration under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s.