Notas sobre a Fortaleza Vermelha

Kamenev, Zinoviev e Trotsky formaram um bloco durante 18 meses, de 26 a 27. Segundo Trostky, acabou-se o bloco devido à repressão, à resistência da burocracia e mesmo das massas, e, então, à impossibilidade de conseguir mudanças a curto prazo.

As bases do bloco, de acordo com Trotsky:

TROTSKY: The basis is formulated in our platform published also in English in a book under the title, "The Real Situation in Russia." It is an important document of 150 pages, embracing all the questions of social and political life in the Soviet Union, of its international policy and questions of the Communist International. As I explained, it was a question of democracy against bureaucracy, equality against privileges, more industrialization—at that time, the bureaucracy was against industrialization—for collectivization in villages, an international revolutionary policy as against a narrow national policy in diplomacy, a total change in the policy of the Communist International, more independence of the sections of the Comintern, and, at the same time, more of an international revolutionary policy of the sections.