Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Leon Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879 and died on August 21, 1940. Leon Trotsky would have been 60 years old at the time of death or 135 years old today.
Leon Trotsky was a good leader of the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Leon Trotsky was killed years before 1977 by an assasin sent by Stalin. Stabbed him once in the neck with an ice pick.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a tyrant and demanded democracy. Although Lenin wanted Trotsky to assume leadership after his death, Stalin's supporters out-maneuvered Trotsky. Stalin suppressed Lenin's will and manipulated Trotsky out of his post of Commissioner of War as well as out of the Politburo.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.
After spending imprisonment in Siberia, Leon Trotsky was allowed to live, by Stalin. Trotsky began his exile in Turkey in Alam Ata.
After Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin's rivals for power were Leon Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin.
Leon Trotsky was one of the Communist leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He died in 1924.
He was killed in his home (in Coyoacan, Mexico city) in 1940. His death was caused by an icepick being smashed into his skull.