After Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin's rivals for power were Leon Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin.
After he was exiled, Leon Trotsky never returned to power. He was murdered while in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was a good leader of the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Joseph Stalin opposed Trotsky in their struggle for power after Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky believed that a revolutionary movement, once in power had to deal with the question of repression. For Trotsky the form of repression or the degree of repression was not one involved with principles. It was a matter of expediency.
Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.