Bloc of Soviet Oppositions
Bloc of Soviet Oppositions | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Leon Trotsky Lev Sedov |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Dissolved | 1933 |
| Merger of | Left Opposition Right Opposition Left-Right Bloc Union of Marxist-Leninists Unknown Liberal Faction |
| Preceded by | United Opposition |
| Ideology | Communism Anti-Stalinism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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. 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.