Stalin Versus trotsky where did trotsky go wrong
After the death of Lenin several mistakes were made by all party members but especially Trotsky, which allowed Josef Stalin to come to power, however Lenin had foreseen Stalin’s intentions and had condemned him in, what has provided the deepest insight into Lenin’s psych at the time, his Political Testament and the postscript he added which went further to suggest that Stalin should be removed from power completely! ... In 1924 and Lenin’s death many saw Trotsky as the main threat to party unity and feared that his leadership of the red army would mean he might try to perform a vicious take-over attempt of the party which would end with a military dictatorship much like that of Napoleon and the French revolution had. However Lenin had also outlined the fact that Trotsky relied to much on the administrative side of things when he wrote his Testament but had condemned Stalin more than Trotsky as the possible one to misuse his power.