ABSTRACT
In the two years that KS and his companions had been abroad, radical changes had taken place in the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death in 1924, the nation was run by a triumvirate: the Party Secretary Iosif Stalin, Trotsky's brother-in-law Kamenev, and Zinoviev, president of the Third International. The New Economic Policy was increasingly reduced and eventually cancelled. Foreign travel was still allowed, with special permission, until the borders were closed in 1926.
