cile 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 acomidated 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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