Question by y: What are the main differences between Stalin and Trotsky?
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Answer by Dwight K. Schrute
Josif Stalin was more a dictator than Leon Trotsky. He used the communist model, with the sacrifices of the proletariat, to forge an industrially powerful empire. However, the proletariat never received back; Stalin simply instituted more projects.
Leon Trotsky, on the other hand, was more about making effectual changes to the lives of the serfs, who although freed in Tsarist times, were still very much a lowly underclass. Spreading the hammer and the sickle was much less important to Trotsky.
Stalin was more of an ambitious in your face cutthroat kind of guy who would kill to get what he wanted while Trotsky was more of a thinker and a planner wanting what is best, see more at https://sites.google.com/site/bussinessmouse/
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ammianus says
Trotsky wanted to export the Bolshevik Revolution, fomenting and aiding Communist revolutions in other European countries,using the Red Army if necessary to help establish Communist governments in Europe.
Stalin wanted to concentrate on securing the Revolution long term in Russia, and tightening Communism's grip there,through rapid industrialization, a policy he called Socialism in One Country.
The other main difference was that Stalin was a ruthless,brutal murderer, who,after exiling Trotsky,had him tracked down and assassinated.