Once Lenin's heir apparent, in 1925 he was removed as Commissar of War; by 1929 he was banished from the country
He was enrolled in a historically German school, which became ... As Trotsky 
later explained [4], after the 1917 revolution, In order not to ... Lenin and his 
supporters (known as Bolsheviks) argued for a .... country and that only a 
revolutionary war leading to a pan-European ... As Trotsky wrote in 1925 [11]:.