Word: trotskyism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile in Central Asia. From there a year later Trotsky was deported into Turkey. Now he lives on Prinkipo, "a planet without a visa...