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Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Trotsky and Stalin

Trotsky was Lenin's main competitor for second most important, after Lenin. Stalin wanted to be in charge while Trotsky was happy to be part of a working power structure. He never lost faith in communism but thought it had perverted it and made it tyrannically bureaucratic. His influence inside the Soviet Union was zero; his remaining family in Russia were killed.

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