Leon Trotsky
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Literature, Publishing, Military History
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Authors, Writers, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination, Communism, Communists, Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks, Violence
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
Article abstract: Trotsky was a preeminent leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Along with Vladimir Ilich Lenin, he directed and guided the revolution and became one of its leading political, military, and intellectual figures. Ousted from political power by Joseph Stalin in 1927 and exiled from the Soviet Union two years later, Trotsky continued to publish on a wide variety of political issues until his murder by a Soviet secret police agent in 1940.
Early Life
The small farming village of Yanovka, in the southern Ukraine, was the birthplace of the...
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