ABSTRACT
Lenin was not really on good terms with Trotsky. Yet Lenin and Trotsky joined forces in 1917; without their alliance the October revolution never would have taken place. A fundamental dispute arose over economic concepts. Trotsky conceived something like the NEP, the new economic policy, about a year before Lenin did, but he also favoured the 'militarization of labour'. Lenin found it difficult to accept Trotsky's reasoning on this matter. Lenin was now convinced that highly placed members of the Politbureau were manoeuvring against him. Toward the end of February, Lenin asked that the article be published in Pravda. Lenin's return to political activity heralded Stalin's end. Morally, after Lenin's break of personal and comradely relations, Stalin would have been compelled to give up the mandate which had instructed him to ensure Lenin's compliance with medical orders. Trotsky, Zinovyev and Kamenev should have insisted that Stalin was promptly removed from supervision of Lenin's personal life.
