trotsky

• strengths - he was one of the bolsheviks best orators
• Trotsky - he could rival lenin in intellectual and in his writings (strength)
• Trotsky - he had been second if not equal to lenin and was persuasive
• trotsky - arrogant & foolish weakness
• trotsky - was dismissive of others leading bolsheviks - treat them with disdain + lack of respect
• weakness - uncompromising views might lead to splits in the party and others questioned his loyalty
• Trotsky was chair of the retrograde soviet
• Trotsky joined the bolsheviks in june
• He headed the military revolutionary committee