ABSTRACT
As a member of the Political Bureau of the Bolshevik party Central Committee through October 1926 and of the Party Central Committee until October 1927, Trotsky was intimately involved in top-level discussion on Soviet foreign policy. What was his attitude toward the Politburo-EC CI tactics of the united front in China? How did he react to Lenin’s shift, in regard to Eastern countries, away from the concept of permanent revolution to the idea of national collaboration?
