ultra-radical sentiment that could not reconcile
             itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization. Trotsky stayed with
             the Menshevik faction until he joined Lenin in 1917. From that point on,
             he accommodated himself in large measure to Lenin's philosophy of party
             dictatorship, but his reservations came to the surface again in the years
             after his fall from power (Stoessinger, 13).
             In the months after the Second Congress of the Social Democratic
             Party Lenin lost his majority and began organizing a rebellious group of
             Bolsheviks. This was to be in opposition of the new majority of the
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