Following the death of Lenin in January 1924, the Bolshevik Party was left without its Messiah. ... Perhaps, had Trotsky wooed the Bolshevik bureaucrats he would have been more successful. ... This led him to accuse supporters of Stalin as being "worms who crawl from the upturned soil of the manured revolution." ... Trotsky was true to the Marxist doctrine by insisting that revolution must be permanent and spread across the world. ... By the time Stalin assumed complete control in 1929 the Bolshevik Party had little in common with Lenin's ideological elite group. ...

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To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School