Why should Lenin become the Bolshevik Leader over Trotsky?
2007-10-28 00:49:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Lenin had been the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party since it split into two factions - the Bolsheviks (majority) and the Mensheviks (minority). Up until 1917, when he sided with Lenin, Trotsky was seen as being more a Menshevik than a Bolshevik.
2007-10-29 04:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Royal kinfolk have been continually the midsection for counter revolutions and have been needed by capability of the White Russians as figureheads of their proposed Constitutional monarchy. this type of government could have been greater acceptable familiar by capability of the Russians, so the Bolsheviks (the Reds) imprisoned, and later murdered the Tsar and his kinfolk to maintain the White Russians from seizing capability. without the Tsar, the White Russian opposition fell away, making a thank you to the government sparkling for Lenin.
2016-09-28 00:34:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bolsheviks were very democratic to start with and they voted for him
2007-10-28 07:36:48 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was more radical and gained more popular support.
2007-10-28 00:58:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋