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What was the Workers' Opposition?

  • A faction within the Communist Party

  • A British trade union

  • A French political movement

  • A German trade union

Answer

The Workers' Opposition was a faction within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that opposed the policies of Joseph Stalin. The faction was led by Leon Trotsky, who argued that the Soviet Union should be governed by a democratically elected workers' council, rather than by a single party dictatorship.
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