Inner-party Soviet struggles had shifted alliances by 1925-26

Evidence

This was the moment when the conflict between Stalin and Bukharin on the one hand and Zinoviev, Kamenev and Krupskaya on the other hand had just exploded at the Fourteenth Congress to the Bolshevik Party in December 1925; Trotsky had been silent for almost a year, and it was only in April 1926 that he was to join forces with Zinoviev and Kamenev. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Chronology of Soviet leadership infighting grounding the broader account of Stalinist consolidation.