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Lenin himself never mentioned the concept of "Trotskyism" after Trotsky became a member of the Bolshevik party. [23] Trotsky was the Red Army's paramount leader in the Revolutionary period's direct aftermath. Trotsky initially opposed some aspects of Leninism [24] [25] but eventually concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks ...
When Bolshevik leaders Lev Kamenev, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and Matvei Muranov returned to Petrograd from Siberian exile in early March 1917 and assumed the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, they began exploring the idea of a complete re-unification of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at the national level, which Menshevik ...
The most serious disagreement that Trotsky and the Mensheviks had with Lenin at the time was over the issue of "expropriations", [69] i.e., armed robbery of banks and other companies by Bolshevik groups to procure money for the Party. These actions had been banned by the 5th Congress, but were continued by the Bolsheviks. Trotsky in Vienna
At the Fifth Congress, the Central Committee was elected, which, due to disagreements between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, turned out to be unworkable, and the Bolshevik Center, headed by Vladimir Lenin, which was created during the Congress by Bolshevik delegates at one of its factional meetings, arbitrarily took over the leadership of ...
In Russia, the Mensheviks believed the two-stage theory applied to Tsarist Russia. They were criticized by Leon Trotsky in what became the theory of permanent revolution in 1905. Later when the two-stage theory re-appeared in the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin , the theory of permanent revolution was supported by the Left ...
Leon Trotsky, future leader of the Petrograd Soviet, backed Martov. The congress voted 28–23 in Martov's favour but his support included the 7 Bundists and Economists who would later walk out from the congress. This left Lenin's faction in the majority, so Lenin called his faction the Bolsheviks or majoritarians.
The Mensheviks organised a rival conference and the split was thus finalized. The Bolsheviks played a relatively minor role in the 1905 Revolution and were a minority in the Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies led by Trotsky. However, the less significant Moscow Soviet was dominated by the Bolsheviks.
On 30 October [O.S. 13 October] 1905, the executive presidency of the Soviet was elected: Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries each sent three representatives. [5] The leading Menshevik representative - despite his earlier disputes with the leaders of the current - was Leon Trotsky .