The 1926 expulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Soviet leadership · the party committee acts against the opposition
As printed: SOVIET BUREAU OUST TROTZKY
ContextLeon Trotsky organized the Red Army after the 1917 revolution, and Grigory Zinoviev headed the Communist International, the Moscow body that directs communist parties abroad; since Lenin's death in 1924 the party's leadership has been contested. The political bureau, or politburo, is the small committee that sets Soviet policy.
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