the leadership... which was an effect of the extreme worsening of internal Party conditions was due to the process of bureaucratization that had overwhelmed the Party…" The next letter, named the ‘Trotskyist Manifesto,' stated that, "…the Party hierarchy, increasingly selects the memberships of conferences and congress… changing them into mere extensions of the hierarchy… and the factionalism must be stopped by those who instituted it… and a more comradely unit must be installed in order to achieve internal Party democracy." (Vol 248). This letter opened up the opportunity to accuse Trotsky of reverting back to Menshevism. The Thirteenth Party Congress proceeded to condemn Trotsky and his supporters' opinions as "…a Menshevik revision of Bolshevism." (Vol249) Labeling Trotsky as a factionalist enabled Stalin to finally start to point out how Trotsky was in disagreement with Lenin and thus was an enemy to the Party. Stalin took this power and developed himself into the interpreter of Leninism. Stalin worked on eroding Trotsky's reputation that was built upon the October revolution and the civil war. He characterized Trotsky's roles in the affairs to be over inflated. Eventually, after constant political attack, Trotsky was informed that under article 58 of the criminal code, "…i.e. the charge of counter-revolutionary activity…"(Pro 391) he would be deported to Alma Ata in Turkestan. Expulsion was the last step in Trotsky's failure to achieve power. He was taken to Constantinople from where he eventually emigrated to Mexico. Stalin's ability to take advantage of Trotsky's errors allowed him to move on to crush the less significant former allies Kamenev and Zinoviev. After eliminating his political opponents Stalin would not be opposed by anyone until his death....
