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  • Juice [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Okay I didn't ask you but what do you think Trotsky was doing?

    Stalin wasn't even in Russia in February, and before October he was like politicking and being kind of a centrist. Lenin was in hiding (but writing and directing) and Stalin was dragging his feet on setting a date for the revolution. They were all in St. Petersburg, fighting an uphill battle, incredibly unpopular until some time in August, dodging the police and trying to do a revolution.

    I guess I'm gonna get piled on now. I really just wanted to know what people think Stalin was doing but let's get this over with