 Communist press denounced her as a "German Trotskyite".She propounded critical views of Stalinism and called for a rebirth of Communism after Stalin's death.Before this period of anti-Stalinism, she had supported the rise to power of the Triumvirs (Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev), denouncing Trotsky at the fifth congress of the Communist International.