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Introduction; Early Political Life; Revolutionary Leadership; Exile; Evaluation
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Trotsky's brilliant polemical and oratorical talents were perfectly suited to a period of revolution: his energies helped to create, and above all, to save the Soviet Union during the civil war. Lacking the skills of a political infighter, however, he lost out to Stalin. Soviet scholars still held to the Stalinist line that Trotsky was a traitor, who attempted to undermine the Soviet Union.

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