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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Russian Marxist and leading figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Second, only to Lenin, Trotsky was a key figure in the Russian civil war and the formative years of the Soviet Union. After Lenin’s death, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Stalin, and he was expelled from the Communist party and Russia.
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Aug 1, 2010 · The assassination of Leon Trotsky is one of the most dramatic events of the first half of the 20th century to have taken place on Mexican soil, and those final hours are an important moment in the history of Mexican neurosurgery and in thehistory of the world. Leon Trotsky was one of the founders of the Soviet Union and an obvious candidate to replace Lenin after his death. Unfortunately for ...
In The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky, Victor Serge writes that Trotsky’s “solutions were always drastic and uncompromising.” Serge, a Trotskyist who left Russia in 1936 just prior to the Great Purge Trials, feels that no other policy was possible given the economic backwardness of the country and the failure of supportive revolutions in ...
Oct 18, 2010 · Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico
Aug 21, 2017 · Ramon persuaded Trotsky to read an article he had written, and while Trotsky's back was turned, the Stalinist Mercader took an ice pick stabbing Leon in the head. Receiving a serious penetrating brain injury, he yelled and his security men rushed to his side prepared to kill Mercader, but a historian to his last moments, Trotsky demanded, "Do ...
