It Would Be Most Accurate to Say of Leon Trotsky

question 43

Multiple Choice

It would be most accurate to say of Leon Trotsky that

• A) all agree that he would have made a "better" leader of Bolshevik Russia than did Stalin.
• B) Stalin realized as soon as Lenin returned to Moscow that Trotsky would be his most potent rival for Lenin's approval.
• C) he was most responsible for persuading the St. Petersburg Soviet to join Lenin's camp, thus sidelining Kerensky.
• D) he and Kerensky had much in common, including their ambition to rule Russia.
• E) he developed Lenin's very successful slogan, "Land, bread, peace."

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