The history of the political struggle within the CPSU (b) in the 20s. The confrontation of G. Zinoviev and L. Kamenev with I. Stalin: a review of the monograph by S.S. Voitikov “Stalin vs Zinoviev (Stalinian)”.

The article evaluates the monograph of Voitikov Sergey Sergeevich, an archivist, a leading researcher at the Main Archival Department of Moscow. S. Voitikov in his research consistently reconstructs the state of affairs within Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (b) in the 1920s, basing on numerous documents of the era, archival materials, transcripts of congresses, memories of eyewitnesses of those events, etc. The author shows the evolution of Stalin's relationship with Zinoviev. He pays great attention to the period after Lenin's death, when power in the country practically passes to the "troika" of Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev. The study describes in detail the period when Zinoviev, after the XIV Congress, was removed from the leadership of the Lensoviet, the Executive Committee of the Comintern, and he allied with Trotsky against Stalin. Despite the considerable, valuable factual material, the work is mostly represented by a set of quotations, extracts from books and documents.