ABSTRACT
Trotsky at first failed to find his bearings after the March 20 “coup”, most likely, because of the dearth of information. It appears that the possible decisions in respect to the CCP that were to be made by the forthcoming May Plenum of the GMD Central Executive Committee broke the ice. At the moment Trotsky acted impulsively; it is obvious that he was not prepared to seriously defend his proposal that the CCP make a break with the Guomindang, as he still had little knowledge of China.
