Activism · Politics · Literature · 1879–1940
Born: 7 November 1879 · Died: 20 August 1940 · Age: 60
Russian Marxist revolutionary who helped lead the October Revolution and founded the Red Army before being exiled and murdered by Stalin's agent
Did you know?While living in exile in Mexico, he had a brief romantic affair with the celebrated artist Frida Kahlo.
Trotsky was one of the chief architects of the Russian Revolution, and then one of its most famous victims. He helped organise the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and went on to build the Red Army, which won the brutal Russian Civil War. After Lenin's death, he lost a bitter power struggle with Joseph Stalin and was expelled from the Soviet Union. From exile he became Stalin's fiercest critic on the left, writing histories and polemics that attracted followers worldwide. He was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 by a Soviet agent wielding an ice axe.
Lev Davidovich Trotsky (né Bronstein; 7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.
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Russian revolutionary, born 1879
Leon Trotsky was born in Bereslavka on 7 November 1879.
He helped lead the October Revolution in 1917.
He founded the Red Army.
He was murdered in Mexico in 1940.
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Did you know?He was killed with an ice axe by a Soviet agent.
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The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik Revolution, was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was led by Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks as part of the broader Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.
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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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