LEON TROTSKY
Name: Leon Trotsky
Born: 7 November 1879 Kherson, Russian Empire
Died: 21 August 1940 Coyoacán, Mexico D.F, Mexico
Leon Trotsky (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 - August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich
Bronstein, was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik
revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian
October Revolution, second only to Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet
Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as
the founder and commander of the Red Army and the People's Commissar of War. He
was also among the first members of the Politburo.
After leading the failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies
and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing bureaucratization of
the Soviet Union, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported
from the Soviet Union in the Great Purge. As the head of the Fourth
International, he continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the
Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico by Ramón Mercader, a
Soviet agent. Trotsky's ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of
Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories and practices of Stalinism.
Name: Leon Trotsky
Born: 7 November 1879 Kherson, Russian Empire
Died: 21 August 1940 Coyoacán, Mexico D.F, Mexico
Leon Trotsky (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 - August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich
Bronstein, was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik
revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian
October Revolution, second only to Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet
Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as
the founder and commander of the Red Army and the People's Commissar of War. He
was also among the first members of the Politburo.
After leading the failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies
and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing bureaucratization of
the Soviet Union, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported
from the Soviet Union in the Great Purge. As the head of the Fourth
International, he continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the
Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico by Ramón Mercader, a
Soviet agent. Trotsky's ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of
Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories and practices of Stalinism.