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Stalin could thus pack the party leadership with his own chosen people.
因此斯大林就可以把自己信任的人安插在黨內的重要位置上
This was a variant of the patronage system established centuries earlier by the Romans.
這是羅馬幾百年前任免系統的一個變體
Stalin also had keen inviting skills, politically.
斯大林在政治上還很有誘惑手段
He hit the ground running after Lenin's death and never looked back.
列寧剛逝世，他把一切都安排的順順當當、義無反顧
The battle for leadership of the USSR was not fought in the open.
爭奪蘇聯領導人地位的戰爭并不是明著競爭的
There were no ballot boxes; there was no fighting in the street.
沒有投票箱，也沒有在街上打斗
The battle was fought at party meeting across the USSR,
這場戰爭是在蘇聯的黨代會上打響的
where Stalin's appointees easily out-shouted and out-voted Trotsky's outnumbered supporters.
斯大林任命的人給他的投票遠遠超過了托洛茨基，盡管托洛茨基的支持者原本多些
It was fought in the halls of the Kremlin,
這場戰爭就在克里姆林宮的大廳里舉行
where Stalin formed an anti-Trotsky coalition, with Trotsky's old enemies Kamenev and Zinoviev.
斯大林和托洛茨基的宿敵加米涅夫和季諾維也夫組成了反托聯盟
Once these two had outlived their usefulness to Stalin,
而這兩個人一失去利用價值
Stalin dumped them for the champion of the new economic policy, the brilliant Nikolai Bukharin.
斯大林就因為擁護新經濟政策，明智的尼古拉·布哈林而拋棄了這兩人
Stalin also promoted a number of old civil war cronies better known for slave-ish devotion than for anything else.
斯大林還提拔了一批他在內戰時的舊友，這些人除了像奴隸般忠誠以外一無是處
Although the Vyacheslav Molotov, whose grave you see here, eventually won the grudging respect of western diplomats after World War II.
只有莫洛托夫，大家現在還能看到他的墓碑，最終在二戰后贏得了西方政客勉強的尊重
One major ideological difference separated Stalin and Trotsky.
斯大林和托洛茨基有個很重要的思想分歧
