The final split between Stalin, the head of the Soviet,
and the Opposition conducted by Trotsky, Zinovieff and others, has come sooner than was expected. A fissure had been opening for a long time, but it was not thought that Trotsky and his friends would be expelled from the Communist Party till the Party Conference met next month. Last summer an attempt was made to get rid of both Trotsky and Zinovieff from the Central Committee, but it broke down. Early in . October, however, Trotsky was expelled from the Executive Committee. He remained 'a member of the , Central Committee till October 23rd,, when both he and Zinovieff Were expelled. Now they are both drummed out of the Communist Party altogether. Other members of the Opposition, Kameneff, Rakovsky, and nine other Opposition leaders, have been expelled from the Central Committee, and are under sentence of being expelled from the Party itself if they do not behave themselves.
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