The voyenspets policy was violently opposed by the Stalin-Voroshilov group which successfully defended bTsaritsyn/b (1926-61 Stalingrad, now Volgograd) against the Whites, but Trotsky successfully defended it as a matter of pragmatic necessity at the Eighth Party Congress in b....../b In 1900 he was sentenced to four years in exile in Ust-bKut/b and Verkholensk (see map) in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, where his first two daughters, Nina Nevelson and Zinaida Volkova, were born. ...
