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During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and Joseph Stalin formed a ruling ' triumvirate ' ( or ' troika ') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of Leon Trotsky.
The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate selection process in autumn 1923 during the run-up to the XIIIth Party Conference and secured a vast majority of the seats.
Some of Trotsky's supporters were demoted or reassigned in the wake of his defeat, and Zinoviev's power and influence appeared to be at its zenith.
However, as subsequent events showed, his real power base was limited to the Petrograd / Leningrad Party organization while the rest of the Communist Party apparatus was increasingly under Stalin's control.
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