Bloc of Soviet Oppositions

Bloc of Soviet Oppositions
LeaderLeon Trotsky
Lev Sedov
Founded1932 (1932)
Dissolved1933 (1933)
Merger ofLeft Opposition
Right Opposition
Left-Right Bloc
Union of Marxist-Leninists
Unknown Liberal Faction
Preceded byUnited Opposition
IdeologyCommunism
Anti-Stalinism
Political positionLeft wing

The Bloc of Oppositions, also known as Trotsky's bloc and called by the Soviet press the Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites, was a political alliance created by oppositionists in the USSR and Leon Trotsky by the end of 1932.[1][2] It was a secret organization to fight Stalinist repression in the Soviet Union.

The Bloc was accused in the Moscow Show Trials of having committed terrorist acts, while in reality that was a fabrication against the opposition. It was, in reality, merely a political, ephemeral alliance.[2]

  1. ^ Thurston, Robert W. (1996). Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 p. 25. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-06401-8. JSTOR j.ctt32bw0h.
  2. ^ a b "Pierre Broué: The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin (January 1980)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.