nd party Congress in 1903.
He represented 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 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
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