A Power Struggle: Stalin and Trotsky ‘The hatred between Stalin and Trotsky was not only based on personality and style but also on policy’ . Trotsky, who had previously created the Red Army with the help of ex-Tsarist officers , was constantly challenged by Stalin, whose vision in the so-called “military experts” was no more than ‘useful renegades’ and shot them whenever possible . Stalin’s ‘loathing for Trotsky became one of the moving passions of his life’ . Furthermore, their ideologies and aims for the country’ were gradually opposing to each other’s, creating main ideological discrepancy between the two: ‘Stalin expressed more and more openly his idea about the possibility of building communism in one separate country’ – ‘ Trotsky and his supporters dismissed it categorically’ . This opposition in the two men’s ideological principles furthered them apart, creating tensions? More here, develop through the above points and fix the format. This quote of Stalin emphasizes even more the mistrust and opposite ideologies the two men had: ‘Trotskyism tries to inculcate mistrust in our revolution’s forces’ . Here In 1921, Lenin had established the ban of factions under difficult circumstances. This ban had forbidden any kind of associations between members within the Party. It definitely was in Stalin’s advantage as the head of ‘the …show more content…
He used those powers to promote and appoint some of his numerous allies, Molotov, Voroshilov and Sergo, to tactical positions in order to gain more influence in the Party and avoid any situations where he could lose a vote in the Party. Other members in the Politburo, Grigory Zinoviev and Kamenev, were terrified of Trotsky, who had united all against himself . By this mean, they had allowed Stalin to progressively bring more of his supporters in the Party organizations, assigning them to key