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    Russian Marxist revolutionary

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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leon_TrotskyLeon Trotsky - Wikipedia

    Lev Davidovich Bronstein [b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Communist Leon Trotsky helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army afterward. He was exiled and later assassinated by Soviet agents.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TrotskyismTrotskyism - Wikipedia

    Trotskyism ( Russian: Троцкизм, Trotskizm) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual [ 1][ 2] Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.

  4. Leon Trotsky was a communist theorist and Soviet politician. He played a key role in the Russian Revolution of 1917. During this time, Trotsky directed the Soviet military forces. He later served as the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1917–18) and of war (1918–24).

  5. Jul 17, 2024 · Trotskyism, a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution.

  6. www.history.com › news › the-trotsky-assassination-75-years-agoThe Trotsky Assassination | HISTORY

    Aug 21, 2015 · Sensing a threat to his power, the Soviet dictator expelled Trotsky from the Politburo and the Communist Party before exiling him to present-day Kazakhstan and banishing him from the country ...

  7. May 8, 2021 · Leon Trotsky (Nov. 7, 1879–Aug. 21, 1940) was a Communist theorist, prolific writer, a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Vladimir Lenin (1917–1918), and then head of the Red Army as the people's commissar of army and navy affairs (1918–1924).

  8. Leon Trotsky, 1920 © Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph ...

  9. Leon Trotsky, orig. Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, (born Nov. 7, 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Aug. 21, 1940, Coyoacán, near Mexico City, Mex.), Russian communist leader. Born to Russian Jewish farmers, he joined an underground socialist group and was exiled to Siberia in 1898 for his revolutionary activities.

  10. Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford.

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